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  • Underground Season 2 Episode 2 Recap

    I’m 1:30 into episode two of WGN’s Underground and I’m already crying. Sure, Venus is in Retrograde, my car is stuck in the ice and I’m craving salty snacks but I’m mostly crying because Bokeem Woodbine’s Daniel has been teaching himself how to read and write. This is courageous AF for any slave to do…

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    Jordan Kauwling

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  • Sorry, Oprah, You Might Be Too Late

    Last week, Oprah Winfrey seemingly contemplated a run for the White House in 2020. When asked if she’d considered entering that race, she responded that the 2016 presidential election had dismissed her previous concerns that she might not be qualified enough for the job. In other words: If Donald Trump can do it, so can…

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    Tracy L. Scott

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  • Watch: My Black History: Lorraine Toussaint’s Mission to See Barack Obama’s Inauguration

    Editor’s note: During Black History Month, the focus is usually on historical figures who loomed larger than life, paving the way for the progress we experience today. But black history isn’t just about telling stories of our past. History is being made every day and has been made throughout our lives; it’s not just in…

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    Peter J. Rickards

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  • 8 Reasons We’re Grateful for New Edition

    After more than 30 years in the business, Ronnie DeVoe, Bobby Brown, Ricky Bell, Mike Bivins, Ralph Tresvant and Johnny Gill are being honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a highly anticipated, three-part biographical miniseries on BET that began airing Tuesday. As they promote the film, the members have been…

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    Tracy L. Scott

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  • Thankfully, Money. Power. Respect. Is Less Love & Hip Hop and More Married to Medicine

    For black professionals who do reality television, there often needs to be a middle ground in terms of entertainment value—as in, some kind of balance between Olivia Pope at a Jack and Jill banquet and Joseline Hernandez, inebriated and full of rage. Anything besides shows like The Real Housewives of Potomac, which spent far too…

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    Michael Arceneaux

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  • What Do You Really Know About the Dirty South? Atlanta Shows Ranked

    FX’s Atlanta is the rare black comedy that is beloved by both critics and audiences. The premiere  drew in over 3 million views, and the show has a 100 percent fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes. While it evokes the surrealism of Twin Peaks, the stoner humor of Dazed and Confused, and the ethos and sound…

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    Lawrence Ware

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  • Someone Please Tell Deadline.com That White Folks Gonna Be Alright

    Yesterday, Deadline.com published Nellie Andreeva’s “Pilots 2015: The Year Of Ethnic Castings – About Time Or Too Much Of Good Thing?” — a piece with so many layers of wrong that calling it a wrong lasagna (ht to Kara Brown) doesn’t quite do it justice. It was a wrong lasagna dipped in wrong Progresso Italian bread crumbs,…

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    Damon Young

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