“Airport Sushi” followed the same format as the prior musical numbers, with Chris Redd and Pete Davidson playing befuddled customers at an equally beloved and reviled New York institution—this time, LaGuardia Airport. When Davidson’s character opts to buy some packaged sushi, he inadvertently summons the “Phantom of LaGuardia,” a tortured-looking …
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Read More »Kevin Richardson, of Exonerated Five, Warns Voters to Not Be 'Bamboozled' by Bloomberg
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At first glance, Randy’s life might not seem like an obvious subject for Keaton’s memoir, a slim volume of 176 pages. The siblings’ paths in the world diverged after they outgrew their childhood bunk beds: Keaton has been a celebrated actor for decades; she’s traveled the world to shoot movies …
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Is there a possibility that Kenya Moore could get Tia Mowry to join Real Housewives of Atlanta? Apparently not. On Thursday (February 27), Mowry discussed part two of her Netflix show Family Reunion with E! News, and of course, she was asked about working with Moore. “Oh my gosh, she’s …
Read More »Black History, Black Stories: 7 Books That Center Our Legacies for Longer Than a Month
Screenshot: Amistad Publishing, City Lights Publishing, Hachette Books It’s Lit!It’s Lit!Where all things literary live on The Root “No scene from African American literary history is more familiar than that of Frederick Douglass’s learning to read,” reads the opening line of the introduction of Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History …
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Amber Rose is getting some strong reactions for a caption on her photo with pop icon Mariah Carey. Rose wrote on her Instagram, “When you’re both light skinned, bright skinned multiracial goddesses.” She also added, “But one is talented and the other one is a hoe.” See below: Rose received …
Read More »Trump Is the 'First Black President’ According to Ex-NFL Player Turned Pastor Jack Brewer
“I’ve got to say ths because it’s Black History Month. Man, you’re the first black president,” former NFL player Jack Brewer said at Black History Month event at The White House on Feb. 27.Photo: screenshot Who in the hell and what in the devil? During a Black History Month celebration …
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📚 “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” by Martin Luther King Jr. Nikki Giovanni on the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. “Rather than memorialize King’s leadership, Giovanni turns to the people he seemed to be leading, and asks what they might do, in his absence, to subvert or fulfill his legacy.” …
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