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Trailer Roundup: Welcome to the Blumhouse, Are You Ready for a Supermarket Sweep?
We’re now officially in the month of September and you’ve probably already heard premature Earth Wind & Fire jokes (since the lyric is “…21st night of September”), but looking at the bright side (we need to!), it’s never a bad time for an EWF jam. Speaking of the bright side, let’s get into these trailers……
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How Would You Spend $900,000 a Month on Entertainment (If You Had It)?
Over the weekend, TMZ waded into messy-boots territory—who am I kidding? They own beachfront property there—and provided alleged details of the temporary spousal support request from Nicole Young, soon-to-be ex-wife of hip-hop super-producer and mogul, Andre “Dr. Dre” Young. Before TMZ dropped the deets, all we knew was that she was requesting $2 million a…
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Lupita Nyong’o Posts Tribute to Chadwick Boseman and His ‘Quiet, Powerful Presence'
Actor Chadwick Boseman lost his private, four-year battle with colon cancer on August 28 at the age of 43. Since then, tributes and fond memories of the star have been pouring in, and on Tuesday, Lupita Nyong’o posted her own statement and tribute to her friend and co-star via Instagram. “I write these words from…
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Tracee Ellis Ross, Regina King, Alfre Woodard and Sanaa Lathan Are Thanking You for Being a Virtual Friend With a Golden Girls 'Reimagined' Rendition
If you threw a Zoom party, would you invite everyone you knew? Well, it looks like some celebrities are using part of their extended free time during the lockdown to continue the show. After all, Hollywood mandates that the show must go on. Over the Labor Day holiday weekend, Tracee Ellis Ross announced a virtual…
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The Safe Negro Guide to Lovecraft Country: A History of Violence
Welcome back to another week in HBO’s Lovecraft Country; our fourth. I want to begin this article moving backward from the largest issue in this week’s episode (serious spoiler alert): the violent murder of Yahima by Montrose. The final scene features a presumably cis Black man slitting the throat of a “two-spirit” Indigenous person in…
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Regina King Says Her Feature Directorial Debut Could 'Open Doors or Close Doors for More Black Female Directors'
I don’t know if you know this, but Regina King is kind of a big deal. The Oscar-winning actress is specifically a big deal at the 2020 Venice Film Festival having made history as the first Black woman director to have a film selected for the prestige festival with her feature directorial debut, One Night…
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Nickelodeon Pulls New Animated Series After Internet Calls Out Its Striking Similarities to Hair Love
Nickelodeon will be removing a new animated Nick Jr. show, Made By Maddie, from its schedule to look further into the “creative journey” of its development, after releasing a trailer for it this week that left Black Twitter clocking many similarities to Matthew A. Cherry’s Oscar-winning short Hair Love. The new show was set to premiere…
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Usher Announces 2021 Las Vegas Residency, and All We Can Say Is 'Yeah!'
Usher once sang “if you want it, scream ‘yeah’”—and it looks like fans of his live shows are going to be screaming “yeah!” next year. Rolling Stone announced that Usher is taking his decades-long career and performing talents to Las Vegas. He will have his own residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, and it…
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The Root Jams Weekly (9/4/2020): 'The Teenage Years'
Monday evening, we were treated to the Verzuz folks have been talking about since the idea came to be: Monica versus Brandy. It featured all of the shade and entertainment we expected, but what it mostly did was take everybody back to the the early-to-mid 90s. For many of us, those were our teen years…
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A Black Lady Sketch Show’s Quinta Brunson to Create, Star and Executive Produce ABC Pilot
A Black Lady Sketch Show’s Quinta Brunson is heading to ABC. According to Deadline, the 30-year-old is creating and starring in the show, and executive producing alongside Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker’s Ehsugadee Productions and Warner Bros. TV. “The Untitled Quinta Brunson project is about a group of teachers brought together at one of the…