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J.J. Abrams confirms he won't direct new Black-led 'Superman' reboot
J.J. Abrams told us exactly one thing about the new Superman movie he's producing.
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A 'Superman' reboot — with a potential Black Man of Steel — is on the way from Ta-Nehisi Coates and J.J. Abrams
There's no word yet on who will be cast as the Kryptonian hero in the new DC film, but Michael B. Jordan had explored playing a Black Superman before and the internet has just nominated John Boyega.
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Oprah Winfrey, Angela Bassett Among Cast for HBO’s Adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘Between the World and Me’
HBO has set an all-star lineup of featured performers in the adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Between the World and Me." The HBO version's cast will include Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey, "Black Lives Matter" founder Alicia Garza, Joe Morton, Phylicia Rashad, The Roots' Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, Courtney B. Vance, Pauletta Washington, and Susan Kelechi Watson. […]
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Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me to Become HBO Special, This Is Us Star Among EPs
Move this one to the top of your reading list: Ta-Nehisi Coates'?Between the World and Me will be an HBO special this fall, the premium cabler announced Thursday. This Is Us star Susan Kelechi Watson, along with Coates and his longtime friend/Apollo Theater executive producer Kamilah Forbes, will executive-produce the special. Forbes also will direct. […]
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Oprah Winfrey says she never seriously considered presidential run: 'So happy I'm not in any of it'
Oprah Winfrey revealed that she also turned down an offer to moderate one of the debates.
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Oprah Winfrey chooses Ta-Nehisi Coates for new Apple book club
Oprah Winfrey made an appearance on CBS This Morning Monday to announce her pick for her newly up-and-running book club with Apple: The Water Dancer by acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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Danny Glover says reparations for slavery are a 'moral, democratic and economic imperative' – but Twitter has mixed reactions
Actor and activist Danny Glover spoke out in favor of reparations for slavery at a House Judiciary panel.
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Chris Rock's new Netflix special: Infidelity, racism, and Trump
Chris Rock talks, sometimes with intentionally minimal humor, about his divorce and his self-proclaimed porn addiction. He's hoping we'll laugh at him — and forgive him.
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Tucker Carlson reviews the Emmys. Spoiler: He hated them.
The Fox News host went on a rant against this year's Emmy Awards, which he called "a remarkable triumph of identity politics."
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'Black-ish' Argues Eloquently About How Black Lives Matter
Built around the Johnson family—advertising exec Dre (Anthony Anderson), doctor Bow (Tracee Ellis Ross), their four children and Dre’s live-in parents—this is an upper-middle-class Los Angeles clan that, week to week, grapples with the usual sitcom concerns of anxious parenthood and troublesome child-rearing. On Wednesday night, black-ish will drop the pretense of a comic plot to address as directly as possible the subject of police brutality toward black citizens in a remarkable episode titled
