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Uncensored: Alexandra Shipp Attempts to Clarify Those Colorism Comments for Glamour Magazine
Alexandra Shipp will not be censored. The 27-year-old actress was best known for her roles in the 2014 biopic, Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B and 2015’s Oscar-nominated Straight Outta Compton before being cast as Marvel superhero Storm in 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse; but Shipp sparked a storm of her own on social media last year when…
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Dear Mariah and Shades on Luke Cage … I Love You, but 'OMG Please Stop!'
Unlike everyone else in the world, I didn’t watch all of season 2 of Luke Cage until this weekend. So that meant I didn’t get to be thoroughly and properly freaked out by this season’s “It” couple, Mariah Stokes Dillard (Alfre Woodard) and Hernan “Shades” Alvarez (Theo Rossi), until June 30, a full week after…
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Zazie Beetz Is the Only Thing That Matters in Deadpool 2
“I know white superheroes aren’t your thing,” The Root’s resident Suge Knight, also known as our deputy managing editor, Yesha Callahan, said to me as she tasked me with writing about Deadpool 2. No, white superheroes aren’t my thing, but Ryan Reynolds is my thing, and even more so, Zazie Beetz as freakin’ Domino! Marvel’s…
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Watch: Marvel’s Luke Cage Season 2 Trailer Introduces New Supervillain
Following the success of the first season of Luke Cage, Netflix released the trailer for season 2 of its acclaimed superhero series, and it’s chock-full of tidbits for the upcoming 13-episode season. The trailer features the introduction of a new antagonist. Although his name suggests that he is the nemesis of DJ Khaled, Bushmaster is…
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Newly Released Deleted Scene From Black Panther Explains W’Kabi and Okoye’s Relationship
A newly released scene from Black Panther’s cutting-room floor shows Okoye and W’kabi in the aftermath of what they believe was T’Challa’s death. Marvel released the deleted scene to increase anticipation for the movie’s May 8 release on digital platforms because they apparently don’t understand that black people were going to buy that shit anyway.…
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Zazie Beetz’s Domino Takes Our Breath Away in New Promo
Confession: I got a great big heaping girl crush on Zazie Beetz. Like many others, I first started watching the stunning and charismatic Beetz as Van, Donald Glover’s on-again, off-again girlfriend in the FX series Atlanta. Now a new promo for Deadpool 2 shows that Beetz is ready to take it to another level. In…
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Is That Suit Vibranium? Wakanda Returns for the Avengers: Infinity War Premiere
We’re baaaaaaaack! That’s right, y’all: Several of our Black Panther faves—and beyond—returned to the purple carpet Monday night for the much anticipated premiere of Avengers: Infinity War in Los Angeles. Chadwick, Danai, Angela, Winston and more all turned out in style to debut the next set of adventures for our Wakandan brethren. But the knockout…
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Did a Taylor Swift Script Dead Donald Glover’s Deadpool?
If Tyler Perry was able to get his Boondock’s episode scrubbed from every crack of the interwebs, it is entirely plausible that the whitest of all white womanhood, Taylor Swift, would be just the girl to dead Donald Glover’s Deadpool. Stephen Glover, Donald’s brother and creative partner, all but confirmed it. Earlier this week, after…
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What’s Going on Between Kanye West and Former Marvel CEO David Maisel? Hmmm
Something’s in the water (good and bad?) between Marvel folks and rapper-moguls. A little over a week ago, FX released a statement confirming that Marvel, Donald Glover and his brother Stephen pulled the plug on an animated Deadpool show. This morning, Glover tweeted that he wasn’t too busy to complete the show—as previously assumed—and shared…