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Watch: Dave Chappelle Prepares to 'Say Anything' and 'Risk Everything' in Netflix's Sticks & Stones Trailer
Dave Chappelle got five on it—five Netflix comedy specials, that is. The comedian’s fifth special, titled Sticks & Stones, now has a trailer and its narrated by none other than the most booked narrator in the entire universe, Morgan Freeman. Freeman introduces us to a solitary Chappelle and ponders on the popular comedian’s rollercoaster journey.…
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Morgan Freeman’s Lawyer Demands That CNN Retract Sexual Harassment Story
Morgan Freeman’s lawyer has issued a statement to CNN demanding that it retract and apologize for its recent story about his client’s alleged sexual harassment, or the network will have to deal with a lawsuit. Robert M. Schwartz, Freeman’s attorney, says that CNN’s May 24 story, in which eight women alleged they had been sexually…
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NFL No-Knee Rule Blasted as Slap at Blacks
Opinion Writers Ask Whether Protest Isn’t Patriotic Debra Lee Departs BET After Three Decades Detained Mexican Journalist Wins New Hearing Reporter’s Experience With Freeman Led to Exposé What It’s Like to Win a Lawsuit Against Trump Why We Still Need a Month for Asian Americans Shaun King Says He Was Duped by Woman’s Story Short…
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Morgan Freeman Too? 8 Women Accuse Hollywood Star of Inappropriate Behavior, Harassment: Report [Updated]
Updated: Thursday, May 24, 2018, 1:24 p.m EDT: Morgan Freeman has spoken up about the multiple accusations of inappropriate behavior, issuing a brief apology Thursday morning shortly after CNN broke the story. “Anyone who knows me or has worked with me knows I am not someone who would intentionally offend or knowingly make anyone feel…
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Are You Listening to the Atlanta Monster Podcast? You Should Be
For many of us with ties to the city of Atlanta, the name Wayne Williams evokes memories. While I was too young and too far away at the time to be directly affected by the Atlanta Child Murders—a name given to the rash of murders of black children from many of Atlanta’s impoverished communities from…
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Polite White People Are Useless
I’m not quite sure if Glory is a great movie. I know that I enjoy watching it. I know that it featured one of the greatest movie scores of all time. (So great that the then-11-year-old me actually went out and bought the soundtrack on a cassette tape. Which probably explains why I didn’t have…
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Morgan Freeman to Produce Rodney King Docuseries With New Home Video Footage
April 29 marks the 25th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, also known as the Rodney King riots, and the man whose beating by police was captured on film and brought the topic of race to the forefront of the national conversation may soon be the subject of a new docuseries. Variety reports that…
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Watch: Can the Cast of Going in Style Do Good Morgan Freeman Impressions?
Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin and Michael Caine star in Zach Braff’s latest film, Going in Style, in which they all play desperate old men who rob a bank because their retirement funds have been squandered. The movie is exactly what it sounds like: curmudgeonly (but still somehow sweet) old men engaging in all kinds of…
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Morgan Freeman Turns 79 For The 79th Time Today. Happy Birthday!
They say it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an expert at something. (They’re wrong when they say that, but they still say that anyway.) Well, iconic actor and professional stately motherfucker Morgan Freeman turns 79 today for the 79th time. Which means he’s had 700,000 hours worth of practice of being 79. Which…
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Five Great Alternatives Black America Should Seriously Consider For President
As Barack Obama’s second presidential term winds to a close, Black Americans are contemplating the sad prospect of holding their noses when they cast their votes for the next Commander-in-Chief. Instead of choosing the lesser of the remaining evils, here are five choices you should consider for the next Black President of the United States:…