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Dissecting the Chocolatey Cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue
The cover of Vanity Fair’s 2014 Hollywood issue is just oozing chocolate goodness: Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Michael B. Jordan and Naomie Harris—just to name a few. Below is an impromptu interview, in the form of a Gchat conversation, with Elizabeth Ozemebhoya, a former staffer at a Los Angeles entertainment agency. She waxes about who’s…
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‘And the Winner Is … ’ Black Stars Who Have Won Golden Globes
Here’s a look at the black actors, actresses and singers who have scored big on the movie-award season’s first major stop. Goldberg is the only African American—male or female—to have won the EGOT, the slate of four major American entertainment awards: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. She is currently the only African-American Golden Globe winner…
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‘My Validity as a Life Coach Isn’t Based on My Personal Life,’ Says Demetria L. Lucas
We’re witnessing the democratization of celebrity. There’s the selfie phenomenon, and those impromptu photo shoots in which everyone seems to take part, even for the most unceremonious occasions. The exploitation of our ordinary lives is faciliated by Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook. Our lives are everywhere. Everyone is everywhere. Everyone is special, therefore no one…
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The Day Alice Walker Said ‘It’s Me or the KKK’
Did you know that Alice Walker (the female face of African-American literature in the 20th century, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple) married a white Jewish man in the 1960s? Their relationship drew so much ire from local Ku Klux Klan members in Mississippi that she turned to her husband one day…
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Left of Black Web Series Now Appearing at The Root TV
Sean “P. Diddy” Combs isn’t the only one launching a video revolution this year. We recently launched our premiere digital-video hub, The Root TV, which features a juicy concoction of relevant news clips, provocative Web series and compelling interview segments that we produce in-house. All of the original and curated video content pushes the envelope…
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Photo Essay: The Few and Mighty: Interracial Political Families
They say all is fair in love and politics—well, that’s not the exact phrase, but the emergence of New York City Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, on the political scene, sheds light on the beauty of the human heart to find its true counterpart, regardless of race or political affiliation. The…
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'12 Years a Slave' Cast on Making the Film
(The Root) — Michael Fassbender, the actor who plays Master Edwin Epps in 12 Years a Slave, told an audience at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado that working with film director Steve McQueen is “painful.” “I like to be punished, and Steve likes to punish,” Fassbender joked, as he explained how it is every…
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NYC Judge: No Delay in Halting Stop and Frisk
U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin refused to delay the enactment of a ruling that will stop New York City’s stop-and-frisk policies, according to Newsday. The city had requested the stay, with Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration and the New York City Police Department saying that the ruling will “compromise public safety” and interfere with law enforcement. Scheindlin upheld…
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The Lone Gunman of Navy Yard Shooting
UPDATED Tuesday, Sept. 17, 10:17 a.m. EDT: According to the New York Times, Aaron Alexis, a black 34-year-old former Navy reservist, was the lone gunman who killed at least 12 people in a shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday. Law-enforcement officials are trying to piece together what motivated Alexis, now dead. Navy…
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'12 Years a Slave' Wins People's Choice Award
As predicted by some film connoisseurs, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave received the People’s Choice Award as audience favorite at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival this past weekend, Deadline reports. The film, about a black violinist living in 1841 New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery, is already being talked about…
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