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I’ve never been a big fan of Westerns, those films with characteristic tropes like shots of rolling tumbleweed, a…
Aug 31
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This September, the Vogue franchise has organized around a single message: Hope, with each global iteration of the…
Jul 1
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It’s time to welcome a new class into the most elite membership in the film industry. On Tuesday, The Academy…
Jan 9 2020
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It’s a 2020 miracle! Or um, more like a 2021 miracle. But we received the news in 2020, so let’s go with that.
Oct 16 2019
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Mostly, Joker was what I expected it to be.
Sep 26 2019
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Black-on-black-on-black....that’s the color scheme on one of the two covers of the Hollywood Reporter’s “Glam…
Sep 11 2019
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Ladies and gentlemen, introducing…*drumroll* the entitlement of white men!
Aug 6 2019
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FX announced that it will renew Donald Glover’s critically acclaimed TV show, Atlanta, for a fourth…
Apr 18 2019
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André Holland is a gottdamn star.
Apr 3 2019
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Smile, bitch. The Joker ain’t going back and forth with these niggas, he’s living his best life.
Feb 5 2019
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It’s official: Atlanta fans have to wait a little longer for Season 3. In fact, we’ll be waiting so long, it’s a no…
Jan 29 2019
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Think about this— the Season 2 finale of critically acclaimed Atlanta was in May 2018. And we haven’t even gotten…
Jan 22 2019
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André Holland is dreamy. Ever since seeing him blossom via Barry Jenkins’ patented full-on medium closeup shot in Moo…
Jun 18 2018
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The MTV Movie & TV Awards air Monday night, but Saturday’s pretaping gave us a lot to look forward to by way of the…
Jun 12 2018
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Regardless of our dating or even sexual preferences, black men and black women are inextricably tied—by history, by…
May 18 2018
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“I know white superheroes aren’t your thing,” The Root’s resident Suge Knight, also known as our deputy managing…
Apr 24 2018
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Confession: I got a great big heaping girl crush on Zazie Beetz. Like many others, I first started watching the…
Mar 1 2018
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It’s been a minute—a president ago—since Atlanta’s first season entranced us. The show quickly became a career…
Jan 8 2018
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Save for Oprah’s show-stealing speech, the Golden Globes were, for the most part, awash in white people in black…
Nov 10 2017
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So, the title is somewhat misleading. Even though every time I’m there it’s cold and hot and wet and generally…