today show
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OK, Are We Ready to Talk About Jenna Bush Hager Hosting 'A Celebration of Toni Morrison'?
“Say what, now?” has been the typical (if not most explicit) response to an announcement made this week that Jenna Bush Hager, former first daughter-turned-Today with Hoda and Jenna co-host, would be hosting “A Celebration of Toni Morrison” on the morning show December 21, 2020. Yes, you heard that right: Jenna “My Dad Is George…
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Al Roker Reveals He Has Been Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer, Confirms He Will Undergo Surgery
Along with his long-tenured work as a journalist and television personality, Al Roker is mostly known for his exuberant energy. The 66-year-old Today news anchor still managed to keep that patented smile and hopeful energy as he revealed that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. “I’m going to be taking some time off to…
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'His Victims Deserve Justice': John Legend Continues to Speak Out Against R. Kelly
While many of past collaborators remain silent on what appears to be the reckoning of decades’ worth of allegations against R. Kelly, John Legend, who declined an opportunity to work with the singer-songwriter, is maintaining his stance. On Tuesday, he spoke with NBC News’ TODAY about the new charges of sex abuse Kelly is facing,…
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Post Megyn Kelly, The Today Show's Ratings Climb
We’d be lying if we said this news didn’t make us snicker in the slightest, so we’ll just admit it outright: In what can only be described as an exquisite demonstration of karma, the Today show has seen a ratings jump since the sudden departure of its once prized catch-turned-money pit, Megyn Kelly. In fact,…
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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…
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Al Roker Joins a Full-Color Cast in Megyn Kelly’s Today Slot
If you tuned into the third hour of the Today show on Monday morning (or tuned in for the first time, out of sheer curiosity), no doubt you were greeted with some friendly and familiar faces. It was likely the most colorful the hour has been in over a year—or at least since Megyn Kelly…
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Tamron Hall Just Gave Soledad O’Brien an Award. Now, Can We Give Them Megyn Kelly’s Hour on the Today Show?
On Wednesday night, some of our favorite media stars gathered at Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library for Harlem United’s “Boulevard Bash,” its ’80s-themed 30th-anniversary gala hosted by Page Six TV’s Bevy Smith and featuring a performance by hip-hop pioneer Doug E. Fresh. This year, the nationally recognized organization, which provides community-focused health care, housing and…
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NBC, What Is You Doing? The Today Show Airs a White Supremacist Infomercial
As America impatiently endures a white supremacist president; as hate crimes become more prevalent; as our government disappears the children of immigrants into the ether as if we have been teleported into some surreal anti-immigrant David Copperfield nightmare … NBC’s Today Show thought this might be the perfect time for their 4.29 million viewers to…
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Parkland, Fla., Cop: ‘In a Perfect World’ He Would Have Entered High School and Stopped Shooter
Scot Peterson, the armed officer captured on video waiting outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., as a shooter gunned down 17 people inside, says that if he knew then what he knows today, he would have been in the school “in a heartbeat.” In his first interview since the February shooting, Peterson…