Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” album is all about roots — her Southern and Texas roots, as well the debt country music owes to Black musical traditions. During her tour for the album, she’s making a clear statement about what grounds her […]
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Denzel Washington, who steals the show in “Gladiator II” with his depiction of Macrinus, a gladiator-turned-arms and slave trader with political aspirations, has always been at his best when he’s playing characters who wrestle with moral questions and personal shortcomings.
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Music legend Janet Jackson is rightly receiving backlash for mischaracterizing Vice President Kamala Harris’ race in an interview with The Guardian, when she was asked about her feelings about the possibility of a Black woman being elected U.S. president. We
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In what counts as one of the bizarre attacks of this year’s presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, stands accused of wrongly characterizing herself as a “daughter of Oakland.” According to an investigative report in The
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