survival
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The Life of a Legend: Bob Marley
The reggae singer’s biopic, “Bob Marley: One Love,” is set to release in theaters on Valentine Day. Meanwhile, we wanted to break down his fascinating story.
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Numa Perrier Producing, Starring in Audre Lorde Biopic
Jezebel director Numa Perrier is set to produce and star in The Erotic, a biopic on famed poet Audre Lorde.
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Watch the Stars of HBO's Native Son Get Real About Surviving While Black
Richard Wright’s Native Son has been resurrected. This time, HBO brought the novel to life with some of your faves: Sanaa Lathan, Ashton Sanders and Kiki Layne. One of the film’s more prominent themes is survival, so The Root attended the New York City premiere of Native Son to ask stars about surviving while black.…
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Who Will Survive in America?
On Kanye West’s 2010 album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, there is an often overlooked track entitled “Who Will Survive America?” The song features Gil Scott-Heron taking a dystopian look at how the world is coming to the realization that America is a bastard “hosed down daily with a gagging perfume.” After the passage of last…
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The President of the United States Is a Terrorist Sympathizer. Now What?
On Tuesday, Donald Trump’s equivocation on the Charlottesville, Va., white supremacist rallies that plunged into violence and acts of terrorism forced America to accept an unmistakable, undeniable and utterly horrifying fact: Donald Trump, president of the United States, is a terrorist sympathizer. You can use whatever euphemisms you’d like—Trump is a terrorist supporter, Trump is…