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NBA forward Blake Griffin likely fractured his hand after reportedly hitting a member of the Los Angeles Clippers’ equipment staff, ESPN reports.   Griffin, who plays for the Clippers, allegedly hit the man during the team’s restaurant stop in Toronto. Griffin and the staff member got into an argument inside the restaurant, where Griffin first struck…

Michelle and Barack Obama’s love affair is being brought to life on the big screen, but during an appearance on The Real, the first lady spoke about her husband’s early years as a student. The president has always been candid about how he wasn’t always the greatest student and even got into a little bit…

For a while, all we had was this breathtaking photo from Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation film. It’s the biopic about Nat Turner, the early-19th-century slave who rounded up other slaves and led a rebellion against white slave owners, killing some 60 white people in Virginia in 1831. Parker wrote, directed and is…

The Queen of Soul is doing her part to help residents in Flint, Mich., during the city’s water crisis. Aretha Franklin plans on donating rooms at a Holiday Inn in Southfield, a Detroit suburb, for 25-50 people, according to Click on Detroit. In addition to the rooms, food will be provided by the local Coney…

Shonda Rhimes wants to set one thing straight about this idea that she did something unprecedented by casting diverse actors and actresses in her string of shows. While it may seem out of this world, Rhimes explained that she simply cast “parts for actors who were the best ones” and created “the world as it…

Just a couple of months ago, The Root posted a video series focused on adoption, and spoke with several people who were adopted as babies. Some of the stories were not only tear-jerking but also a reminder about how there are so many children in the world who need homes.  Among adoptees, there are some…

Gabrielle Union threw major shade at Stacey Dash during an interview at the Sundance Film Festival. Union was attending the screening of The Birth of a Nation when a reporter asked what she thought about Dash’s recent comments about BET and Black History Month. “Who’s that? Who’s Stacey Dash? Is she, like, related to Dame…

More stars are speaking out about the Academy Awards and its problem when it comes to having a diverse representation not only among nominees but also among members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who are responsible for submitting nominations. As stars gather this week at the Sundance Film Festival, it seems…

Stacey Dash is feeling the wrath of black America. She keeps arguing that any effort or initiative to celebrate black American achievements—e.g., Black History Month and the BET Awards—is segregation and isn’t moving the ball forward on race relations. Even though family is supposed to present a unified front out in the open, her cousin,…

Cringe at any talk you hear about how Chris Rock ought to quit his hosting gig at this year’s Academy Awards to boycott the upcoming event alongside the other black celebrities who plan to. Because if you know anything about Rock, you know that the first things that’ll come flying out of that man’s mouth…