So there was something viscerally lovely about seeing her pop up in sketches like the one in which a group of friends—in the year 2019—visited a fortune teller. The predictions they received were puzzling ones about dreary social isolation and Zoom mishaps. As Kate McKinnon’s hammy psychic looked Adele’s character …
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Barack Obama has been hitting the campaign trail in support of Joe Biden’s presidential bid, and in the final ten days before Election Day, he’s taking the gloves off when it comes to Donald Trump. During a Saturday (October 24) drive-in rally on the campus of Florida International University, Obama …
Read More »Photo: Matt York (AP) It’s Lit!It’s Lit!Where all things literary live at The Root In the midst of this year’s massive, nationwide Black Lives Matter demonstrations, Black bookstores have enjoyed a short-term boost in sales they hope to turn into a longer-term renaissance. A new report from Bloomberg highlights this …
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Jeong went further than most in drawing an equivalency between China and Trump’s America. Still, the Chinese regime does tend to garner more respect and deference among a certain kind of American observer than the Trump administration does. China, if one puts human-rights abuses aside, can seem tantalizingly efficient—a technocrat’s …
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According to an Instagram Live video posted by Offset, the Migos rapper was involved in an incident with police on Saturday evening (October 24). In the video, the 28-year-old is pulled over and seated in a vehicle, during which, a male and a female police officer approach him. “I’m not …
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Former NFL quarterback Michael Vick opened up about his road to redemption following his 21-month prison sentence in 2007 for his involvement in a dogfighting ring during a panel about empowering g the next generation of Black men at BLACK ENTERPRISE’s 4th annual Black Men XCEL summit. “When I came home from prison, …
Read More »Photo: David McNew (Getty Images) On the heels of the last presidential debate—in which Trump flippantly dismissed his administration’s cruel and inhumane decision to separate immigrant children from their parents for the crime of being non-white and seeking asylum in America—there are now reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) …
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Alicia Garza, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, revealed on Twitter today (October 23) that she was told by the FBI of a possible white supremacist plot against her. Garza shared that agents from the bureau visited her to inform her that they had arrested a suspected white supremacist …
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Less than two weeks before California voters will decide whether to exempt the ride-hailing companies from the state’s gig economy law, a California appeals court ruled Uber and Lyft must reclassify their drivers as employees instead of independent contractors. The ruling will not have an immediate impact on the companies …
Read More »Underwood (center) will star alongside John Salley (left) and Chosen Jacobs (right) in Sneakerella. Photo: Greg DeGuire (Getty Images), Leon Bennett (Getty Images), Jon Kopaloff (Getty Images) Lexi Underwood, the impressive newcomer who delivered her own acting performance to remember next to Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon’s masterful ones in …
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