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Negro Noir: The Preacher’s Son Truly Pops Off During the Last 15 Minutes
Movies that are “so bad, they’re good” are one of life’s unsung treasures. And like anything, adding blackness to that principle is like adding proper seasoning. Thus, I introduce you to our new series reviewing/recapping bad black movies, Negro Noir. As our queen-in-chief Danielle Belton pointed out, it’s so black, the title of the series…
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‘Know Your Girls’ Encourages Black Women to Get Intimate With Breast Health
Despite a few outliers who say they “can’t trust women,” if there’s one thing black women have, it’s their “girls.” Knowing that, a group of black women—including actress Vanessa Bell Calloway, who herself has battled breast cancer, and Alicia Keys, whose mother is a breast-cancer survivor—have partnered with the Susan G. Komen foundation, the Ad…
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Unique Views, Episode 33: Black Don’t Crack, Featuring Vanessa Bell Calloway
Whenever Patti LaDanielle (aka The Root’s social-content producer, and our podcast co-host, Danielle Young) and I talk hip-hop—like, real hip-hop—I have a tendency to throw on my hip-hop voice, which includes a faux New York accent and a whole lot of “yos” and “sons” and “gods.” It happened this past episode because Ms. Patti Patti…