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Usher Talks ‘Being a Girl Dad,’ New Baby and Returning Back to the Stage for New Las Vegas Residency
The “Don’t Waste My Time” kicked off his new residency at The Colosseum in Caesar’s Palace
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Things to Read and Watch to Celebrate and Honor Juneteenth
A collection of books and media giving us intersectional insight into the experiences of those once enslaved.
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Not a Single Player Taken in the 2021 NFL Draft Played for an HBCU. How Did That Happen?
The 2021 NFL Draft has come and gone. Yet despite the fact that nearly 260 players transitioned from college students to professional athletes throughout the course of that evening, there wasn’t a single one who was drafted from an HBCU. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Not a single one. Division III standout Quinn Meinerz got snatched up…
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Michael Strahan Tests Positive for COVID-19
Co-host of Good Morning America and pro football hall-of-famer Michael Strahan has reportedly tested positive for COVID-19. People reports that Strahan has been noticeably absent from the early morning ABC show and that he is currently self-quarantining in his home. On Thursday’s Good Morning America, colleagues Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos and Amy Robach addressed his…
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Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly Claims He Was Also a Victim in Breonna Taylor’s Death, Casts Blame on Kenneth Walker
In his first interview since barging into the home of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor in March, Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly of the Louisville Metro Police Department said he would certainly do things differently if he were able to redo that night. He would have entered Taylor’s home sooner. “We expected that Breonna was going to be there…
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Mathew Knowles Reveals He Has Breast Cancer and Emphasizes the Importance of Early Detection
On Tuesday night, a sad bit of news hit the Twitter timeline as Good Morning America promoted its Wednesday morning show. Mathew Knowles sat down with the show’s co-anchor, Michael Strahan, and revealed that he has breast cancer. “I’m hoping by me coming here today, speaking out, letting folks know that you can survive this…
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Kevin Hart Is Pretty Damn Tired of Apologizing to the LGBTQ+ Community, Promptly Goes on Exhaustive Fake Apology Tour
In the words of Kevin Hart himself, “Oh-my-God, nooooooo!” I am firmly a proponent of the “shutting the fuck up is free” philosophy because it is free in both money and energy. So, Kevin deciding to use so much energy on the very thing he’s so against spending energy on is damn near baffling. After…
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Halloween, Celebrity Style: Beyoncé Goes Braxton, Al Roker Claps Back and More
Who doesn’t love Halloween? Okay, plenty of people—including The Root’s beloved editor-in-chief, Danielle Belton (she doesn’t like being scared). But for those of us who do (like Michael Harriot, who considers it his favorite holiday and starts planning his costume the day after Christmas), the 31st of each October (and its adjacent weekends) is the…