Iggy Azalea is confirming that she is no longer in a relationship with Playboi Carti. After the Australian rapper sparked breakup rumors in her Instagram Story on Friday night (October 23), she is putting any lingering speculation to bed. Azalea gave a brief update on her IG Story on Saturday, …
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Growing up in the then-murder capital of America, Gary, Indiana, local barber turned talk show host Jamie McGrone knows all too well what it means to have to turn tragedy into triumph. Although he grew up in a loving, large family, he understood that nothing would be given to him. …
Read More »Lucille Clifton recites “Won’t You Celebrate with Me” in Screenshot: PoetryEverywherePTV/YouTube It’s Lit!It’s Lit!Where all things literary live at The Root The opening lines of one of Lucille Clifton’s best-known poems read: “Won’t you celebrate with me, what I have shaped into a kind of life? I had no model.” …
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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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ABC is giving a six-episode back order to their popular series Black-ish, according to Deadline. The pickup brings the order for the Kenya Barris-created comedy to 21 episodes, making it a full season order with a potential for more in the future. The season premiere of Black-ish’s seventh season came …
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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, …
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