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How Much Can a Movie Studio Lose With Non-Diverse Projects? Up to $130 Million per Film, New Study Confirms
Hey, guess what, y’all? We have yet another reason to believe Hollywood is so inherently racist it even goes against its own best interests to uphold the white supremacist structure! Oh, wait—that’s all of America! Anyway. According to a recent UCLA report (via the institution’s Center for Scholars and Storytellers) titled, “Beyond Checking A Box:…
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Five-Star Recruit Makur Maker Commits to Howard, 'Makes the HBCU Movement Real'
Real estate is cool, but if you want to make some real paper, you might want to look into college sports—provided you’re not a Black student-athlete. As I’ve reported here at The Root, the NCAA is big business for everybody but Black players, generating over a billion dollars in annual revenue—most of which comes from…
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UCLA Just Dropped Its 2020 Hollywood Diversity Report and…It's Heavy on the Mayonnaise
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Hollywood has a bit of a diversity problem. For those out the loop, look no further than Sunday night’s Oscars, which featured a grand total of—wait for it—five black nominees. If the ceremony were any whiter, it’d be mistaken for a Klan rally. Which brings us to…
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'I Really Believe It's a Form of Racism': Michael Jackson Lawyers Question Ethics of Leaving Neverland Doc
When it comes to an iconic music artist such as Michael Jackson and the controversies that surrounded him, you can never really leave Neverland. According to Variety, that was the topic broached at a Tuesday night panel titled, “Truth Be Told? Documentary Films Today,” hosted by the UCLA School of Law Ziffren Center and USC…
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LaVar Ball Is Out of His Mind: He’s Sent Sneakers to Trump and He May Have Just Ruined LiAngelo’s Career
LaVar Ball may have really done it now. On Monday the senior-most Ball announced that he was pulling his middle son, LiAngelo, from UCLA. Big Ball was upset that the school had placed his son and two other students—Cody Riley and Jalen Hill—on indefinite suspension after the three student-athletes were caught shoplifting in China. “I’m…
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LiAngelo Ball, 2 Other UCLA Basketball Players Suspected of Shoplifting in China Are Now Back in the US
LiAngelo Ball and two other UCLA men’s basketball players who had been arrested on shoplifting charges in China last week have been allowed to return home. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ball—the younger brother of the Los Angeles Lakers’ Lonzo Ball—Jalen Hill and Cody Riley all checked in for a Los Angeles-bound flight at…
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LiAngelo Ball, 2 Other UCLA Players Out on Bail After Arrest in China, but Will Not Play in Season-Opening Game
LiAngelo Ball, the younger brother of the Los Angeles Lakers’ Lonzo Ball, and two other UCLA men’s basketball players were released on bail early Wednesday morning after being arrested in Hangzhou, China, on shoplifting charges. According to ESPN, the three players, including freshman team members Cody Riley and Jalen Hill, are accused of stealing from…
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LiAngelo Ball, 2 Other UCLA Players Arrested on Shoplifting Charges in China: Report
There’s dumb and then there’s dumb, and I’m not quite sure what I mean by that yet, except that apparently LiAngelo Ball and two other UCLA men’s basketball players may be both kinds of dumb, after reports of their being arrested in China on shoplifting charges just days before Friday’s season-opening game against Georgia Tech…