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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

Over five months after Daniel Prude died in police custody during a mental health breakdown, the police officers involved have finally been suspended.  The New York Times reports on Thursday (Sept 3) that Lovely Warren, the mayor Rochester, New York, where the horrific incident took place, took the disciplinary action …

Screenshot: ABC7 Oh, how I love seeing Black people—especially Black women—in positions of power. For the first time in the state’s history, New Jersey is sending a Black woman to serve as a state Supreme Court justice after the state Senate unanimously confirmed her nomination Thursday. USA Today reports that …