Tiffany Haddish attends Black Girls Rock! 2017 at NJPAC on August 5, 2017 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for BET) Tiffany Haddish landed an exclusive interview with esteemed immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci for her YouTube channel. In the video posted late August, the comedienne went one-on-one …
Read More »Curtis Flowers Murder Charges Dropped After Six Trials
Curtis Flowers is finally a free man. Prosecutors in Mississippi dropped murder charges against Flowers on Friday, ending a more than two-decade-long ordeal that began when he was charged in 1996 for the murders of four people at a furniture store in Winona, Miss. – murders he consistently maintained he …
Read More »Chadwick Boseman's Honored In His Hometown
Following the shocking death of actor Chadwick Boseman who passed away on August 28th at the age of 43 following a private four-year battle with colon cancer, his native South Carolina is remembering Black Panther’s King T’Challa as a hometown hero. The city of Anderson paid tribute to Boseman during …
Read More »The Root's Clapback Mailbag: I Feel Fine
Illustration: Oscar Bustamante Clapback MailbagEach Friday, we select the best (or worst) emails, tweets, DMs and comments from our readers and respond to them in the The Root’s Clapback Mailbag. I’m going to stop being so offensive. From now on, I promise to respond to the violence, theft and downright …
Read More »Usher Announces Vegas Residency
Congratulations to Usher! During a Summer Concert Series appearance on Good Morning America on Friday (Sept. 4), the singer-songwriter shared both personal and professional news. The eight-time Grammy-winning R&B crooner will be launch a residency in Las Vegas in 2021. RELATED: Usher Drops Video For New Song ‘I Cry’ Tickets …
Read More »Generation Work-From-Home May Never Recover
Moving to New York a few years into the job helped, but it didn’t totally solve the problem—I was still the girl on her laptop in her bedroom, trying to make people from Twitter like me enough to meet a stranger for an after-hours drink. After you’ve left the ready-made …
Read More »Toni Braxton On ‘Braxton Family Values’ Status
Braxton Family Values has been on air since 2011 but it’s unclear when or if the show is going to return. According to Atlanta Journal Constitution, while on The Rickey Smiley Morning Show, Toni Braxton said due to Tamar’s hospitalization, the family is focused on her, not television, “My sister …
Read More »Get Ready for the BET Hip Hop Awards 2020
Tyler Perry’s The Oval Is Just Getting Started Look back at the scandals, greed, lies and cover-ups from the first half of the season, then get ready as new episodes of Tyler Perry’s The Oval kick off May 6 at 9/8c. Source link
Read More »Usher Announces 2021 Las Vegas Residency, and All We Can Say Is 'Yeah!'
Photo: Emma McIntyre (Getty Images) 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 …
Read More »‘Who’s Putting These Ideas in His Head?’
Applebaum: For example? Strzok: Like, for example, why did he not take stronger action against the Russians for placing bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan? Why has he, for no apparent reason, moved 11,000 American troops out of Germany? Or here’s an obscure one: Why did he parrot Russian propaganda …
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