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'Happy' Kodak Black Successfully Sits Through Soft-ball Interview from the Breakfast Club
For a bunch of men intent parlaying their purported toughness and criminality into cold, hard cash, this generation’s latest wave of emcees with penchants for hitting women seem to have one thing in common: Thin skin. Wednesday, Kodak sat for an inter with HOT97’s Ebro Darden. Ahead of a pending release of his sophomore album,…
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Television for Colored Girls: CLEO TV Cozies Up to Black Millennial Women
For the new year, a new cable channel dedicated to young black women will hit the airwaves. And it promises to be more than just reruns, rehashed specials, depressing docuseries and R&B music videos viewers have seen elsewhere. The channel, CLEO TV—a nod to the Egyptian queen of two centuries past mostly known in pop…
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Ryan Coogler on Black Panther: ‘It’s Definitely A Political Film’
Black Panther so political. Ryan Coogler and Spike Lee recently joined other leading directors for the Hollywood Reporter’s popular roundtable series to discuss their award-nominated films, their personal career journeys and directorial inspirations. Yes, Black Panther is within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but make no mistake about it—it’s not solely for entertainment. And the film’s…
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Legendary 'Song Stylist' Nancy Wilson Dies at 81
Nancy Sue Wilson, the award-winning singer who lent her vocal instrument to the world for over five decades, has died at the age of 81. Wilson’s publicist confirmed that the iconic singer died at her home in Pioneertown, Calif., on Thursday following a long illness, according to Deadline. A specific cause of death hasn’t been…
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I Expected to Hate Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Then Marvel Made It Extra Black
You know that feeling you had when you finished watching Black Panther the first time? The credits were rolling and you sat there experiencing a mix of emotions—shock, happiness and validation, all while SZA and Kendrick Lamar’s “All the Stars” flowed throughout the theater? Imagine having all of those feelings again, except this time the…
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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Pivots from Basically Playing Himself in a Film to Actually Playing Himself in a Film
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has mastered the fine art of dominating a genre or character type and delivering an army of films while getting paid for it. And I mean, getting hella paid for it. Shit, he’s the second highest paid actor on the 2018 Forbes list. Let me remind you, his original career (after…
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I Thought I Played Candy Crush Too Much. Apparently I'm an Amateur Compared to Some People
I’m about to admit something that I was originally ashamed of because I thought I’d been neglecting my responsibilities (family, work, Black Jesus, etc.) because of how much time I clearly had spent playing Candy Crush. Turns out, what I’m about to admit actually makes me feel shamed for having thought I was doing something…