Television
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The Category Is ‘Booked And Busy’: Pose Season Two Premieres in June
The category is: BOOKED AND BUSY! The second season of FX’s groundbreaking television program Pose is scheduled to return to our screens on Sunday, June 9, and it’ll be bringing you new looks and a new attitude. Gird your loins and secure those wigs because New York City’s legendary ballroom scene is about to twirl…
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Beyoncé Is Coming to Netflix With New Documentary Titled ΗΘΜΣCΘΜΙΝG
It is the day that the Lord has made, so let us rejoice and re-up on those Netflix subscriptions because the streaming giant has given us a name and a release date for Beyoncé’s upcoming documentary. As previously reported by The Root, ΗΘΜΣCΘΜΙΝG will feature behind-the-scenes footage of Beyoncé’s black-ass Beychella performance and give us…
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Serengeti: Lupita Nyong’o and John Boyega to Narrate New Series on African Wildlife
Lupita Nyong’o and John Boyega have been chosen to narrate the upcoming wildlife series Serengeti, which will air on TV in the U.S. and U.K. Nyong’o will be narrating the U.S. version, while Brits will hear Boyega’s voice, Deadline reports. The six-part cable series will cover a year in the linked lives of different types…
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Post-Black Artist and Director Rashid Johnson Breathes New Life Into HBO's Native Son
A rock star of the modern art scene, Rashid Johnson has gained high marks for showcasing his multidisciplinary African-American style in his work, which includes painting, sculpture, photography, video and performance. The award-winning, mixed-media artist (who has used bricks of Shea butter, vinyl recordings, elemental bronze sculptures and installation of books in his exhibits that…
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We've Been Talking About Education All Wrong. Wyatt Cenac Wants to Change That
Wyatt Cenac knows it’s easy to laugh at Aunt Becky. When news broke last month of the college admissions scandal—which saw dozens of the nation’s most privileged parents receive federal indictments for bribing their children’s way into the nation’s top universities—it dominated as many punchlines as it did headlines. Included in the schadenfreude were jokes…
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French Twist: André Holland to Star in Netflix's Musical Series The Eddy
Movie lovers likely remember well the 2017 awards season, which brought us the revival of the big screen musical with La La Land versus the stunningly beautiful coming-of-age story that was Moonlight. Of course, Moonlight would eventually nab the Best Picture Oscar that year in a stunning upset, but the competing filmmakers and casts maintained…
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The Petty Continues: City of Chicago Says It Will Sue Jussie Smollett After He Misses $130,000 Repayment Deadline
Leave it to the Windy City to not let shit go. The City of Chicago says it intends to sue actor Jussie Smollett after he missed a deadline on Thursday night to pay back the city $130,000 for the cost of investigating the alleged attack against him, Deadline reports. The deadline was imposed by outgoing…
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Goodbye to 'Her': A Key Character From This Is Us Won't Be Returning as a Series Regular in Season 4
Editor’s Note: Beware of Season 3 finale spoilers! The third season of NBC’s hit drama This Is Us just wrapped on Tuesday night, leaving its audience in a glass case of emotions. Lots of emotions. A rollercoaster ride of emotions. Though we get to breathe a huge sigh of relief knowing the fate of Beth…
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Dear This Is Us, You Have Me on an Emotional Rollercoaster and I Just Can't Get Off: The Spoiler Alert Edition
***My G, all the spoilers. All of them.*** When the powers/writers/sadists that be behind the show This Is Us began teasing the future of the Pearson clan at the end of last season—showing us an older Tess and a much older Randall preparing to go see “her” and leaving all the questions—all any of us…
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Back to the Essence: Tracy Morgan Returns to Bed-Stuy Community Garden to Kick Off 2nd Season of The Last O.G.
The Last O.G., the number one show on TBS, is heartening, sly and oh-so-real. It portrays in popular culture the collateral damage of mass incarceration—the lost time, the regrets, the broken ties, yet, the thing that makes The Last O.G. so compelling, so irresistible, is that it wraps that heavy, weighty reality in levity and…