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Photo: ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/Steve Jennings/Dia Dipasupil (Getty Images) It’s Lit!It’s Lit!Where all things literary live at The Root Former President Barack Obama will sit down with two very familiar faces as his long-awaited new memoir, A Promised Land, launches next week. Gayle King will be first on the docket to chat …

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When it comes to the Queen, The Crown tends to forgive easily. Across the Netflix drama’s first three seasons—blanketed in a warm nostalgia and postwar idyll—The Crown argued that her flaws made her only more sympathetic, that she faced unknowable pressure as a monarch and the head of an esteemed …

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Brett Hankison, the ex officer involved in the killing of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, is being sued for sexual assault.  According to The Courier Journal, a lawyer named Margo Borders is accusing Hankison of “willfully, intentionally, painfully and violently sexually assaulted.” She claims he gave her a ride home from a …

After Chrissy Teigen and her family received the ashes of baby Jack on Monday (Nov. 9), the model and mother of two shared how daughter Luna Simone, 4,  is remembering her little brother.  Heading to her Instagram, Teigen shared a pair of videos of a teddy pair that held a …

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Actress Eva Longoria was in a mediafire storm after she appeared to dismiss the work of Black women by saying Latinas were the “real heroines” of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The Mexican-American later apologized for the statement. Now her friend Kerry Washington is speaking out clarifying what the Desperate …

Photo: Petty Officer 2nd Class Nathan Burke (AP) Black women keep making history and I, for one, love to see it. Next spring, Midshipman 1st Class Sydney Barber will become the first Black woman to serve as brigade commander at the U.S. Naval Academy. According to CBS News, brigade commander …