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  • VSB Interview with Queen Sugar's Kofi Siriboe

    (Interview edited for clarity and length.) The mid-season finale of OWN’s hit show, Queen Sugar, is tonight and VSB had the opportunity to speak with Kofi Siriboe on his breakout role as Ralph-Angel, toxic masculinity and why for come he couldn’t have been in every scene in Girls Trip.  Kofi Siriboe’s Ralph Angel is a…

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    Jordan Kauwling

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  • #GimmeSugar: OWN Renews Queen Sugar for Season 3

    Last month, Oprah Winfrey told a small group of women attending a Queen Sugar event in Los Angeles that the show isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. And of course, Winfrey kept her word: OWN has renewed the spectacular series for a third season. Queen Sugar, the series executive-produced by Ava DuVernay and based on the…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • Queen Sugar Actor Comes Out as Transgender—on His Own Terms

    The character of Toine Wilkins, a transgender police officer on OWN’s critically acclaimed series Queen Sugar, is the first trans person Brian Michael Smith has ever portrayed, and is perhaps the first portrayal of an African-American trans man on a major television show. Since beginning his professional acting career some six years ago, Smith has…

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    Angela Helm

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  • Watch: Kofi Siriboe Says Being Black Is a Blessing

    We have a new video series here at The Root that we want to share with you all, and it’s called Black and Proud. We get the chance to chat with a lot of our favorite black celebrities, tastemakers and thought leaders, so we decided to ask them about their pride in being black. Many…

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    Danielle Young

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  • Everybody’s Queen Sugar Bae, Kofi Siriboe, Is Trolling All of Us

    Kofi Siriboe is easily the bae of anyone who is attracted to the male species. Kofi knows he’s bae. Kofi also loves black women, fully, unapologetically and relentlessly. It’s clear in the way he treats his momager (who happens to be a friend of mine), Koshie Mills. When he speaks to her, his voice is…

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    Danielle Young

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  • Oprah Winfrey, Ava DuVernay and Queen Sugar Cast Discuss Season 2 and Diversity on TV

    About eight women gathered in a circle and waited patiently for Oprah Winfrey and the stars of Queen Sugar to walk into a hotel room at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills in Los Angeles during a press junket sponsored by OWN. As we all sat there, trying to prep ourselves, there was a buzz of…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • Unique Views, Episode 46: Queen Sugar or Queen Cougar?

    I’m not one to brag, but in my heyday, I was the Michael Jordan of charm. As I’ve gotten older, I’m not as sharp, and in truth, I’ve lost a step. My charm has never worked on my co-host, Danielle Young, aka Ms. Patti Patti LaDanielle, and as such, we hate each other. That’s not…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Watch: Queen Sugar’s 2nd-Season Trailer

    It looks as though the three Bordelon children in OWN’s Queen Sugar have some major drama brewing in season 2. In the new trailer that dropped this week, siblings Nova (Rutina Wesley), Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner) and Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe) aren’t on the same page when it comes to cultivating the sugarcane farm, from a…

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    Yesha Callahan

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  • Watch: In Focus With Director Justin Tipping, Whose Film Kicks Challenges Our Perception of Manhood 

    Editor’s note: In Focus is a The Root TV series showcasing the new wave of black filmmakers. Justin Tipping is the writer and director of Kicks, a story set in Oakland, Calif., about a young teenager whose dream is to own a pair of fresh Air Jordans. Soon after he gets his hands on them,…

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    Peter J. Rickards

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  • At the AAFCA Awards, Black Artists of TV and Film Invest in One Another

    You can’t call it a comeback because we’ve never been here before. To paraphrase actor Omar Dorsey, aka “Hollywood” from the TV show Queen Sugar, at Wednesday night’s African American Film Critics Association Awards, you can’t call it a rebirth because this is something in its infancy. We’ve only just begun. What Dorsey was referring…

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    Danielle C. Belton

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