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Black History Month: Where to Watch TV Series, Movies That Celebrate Our Stories

Oprah, Halle Berry, Taraji and More Celebrate 50 Years of ESSENCE | Time Of Essence | OWN As Essence magazine celebrates its 50th anniversary, this docuseries chronicles its rise, fall and rise again. It tells the whole story, good, bad and ugly. This was thee magazine for Black women and you can’t explore Black history […]

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BHM: Where to Watch TV Series, Movies That Celebrate Our Black Stories

Oprah, Halle Berry, Taraji and More Celebrate 50 Years of ESSENCE | Time Of Essence | OWN As Essence magazine celebrates its 50th anniversary, this docuseries chronicles its rise, fall and rise again. It tells the whole story, good, bad and ugly. This was thee magazine for Black women and you can’t explore Black history […]

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Black History Month: TV Specials, Documentaries You Should Watch

The Harlem Hellfighters | Airs Feb. 4, 2024 at 9/8c | History If your dad loves a good war documentary, this one will be right up his alley. Narrated by Robin Roberts, it chronicles the heroic efforts of the 5th New York National Guard Regiment during WWI. It also details the racism they faced when […]

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Say Goodbye To Sharing Your Passwords For Hulu, Which Is Going The Way Of Fellow Corporate Streamer Disney+

Remember streaming password sharing? For ages the online movie and TV companies did nothing as subscribers gleefully gave their logins to everyone they knew. Who could afford to watch all the hot shows when subscribing to every streamer was costing more than having cable? Turns out that wasn’t profitable for the companies. Netflix started cracking […]

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Judge Tosses Disney Lawsuit, Greenlights Ron DeSantis Retaliation

But in his statement Tuesday, Schwerin said Biden had not been involved, either as a public official or a private citizen, in Hunter’s business dealings, nor had he ever been asked to take action on Hunter’s behalf. Schwerin said that in his role as Hunter’s business partner, he never asked Biden to get involved with […]

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A Pixar-Themed Hotel Just Opened At The Disneyland Resort — Here’s What You Need To Know

If “to infinity and beyond” is a bit too far away… maybe try Pixar Place instead? The newest addition to the Disneyland Resort is the first hotel fully themed around Pixar characters and iconography in the United States. The 15-story Pixar Place Hotel, which replaced the Paradise Pier Hotel, has 479 rooms and overlooks Disney […]

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If You Loved Meghan Markle in ‘Suits,’ Here Are More Black TV Characters to Revisit

Sydney and Francie, Fight. Before she was a movie star, Jennifer Garner was TV superspy Sydney Bristow, and arguably the very best season centers on Season 2. Merrin Dungey as Sydney’s best friend, Francie, gets killed and cloned in the show and it leads up to the fight scene of a lifetime.

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Shocking New Deets on Walmart Shopper Confronted for Her Half-Naked Toddler

A Black Mississippi mother gained a slew of attention after being caught on camera by a Walmart employee, strolling around her toddler who was dressed in nothing but a diaper. After facing serious backlash, she decided it was time to clear the air. In ‘Love & WWE: Bianca & Montez’, The Superstar Wrestle With Balancing […]

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Lanny Smoot Makes Black History As First ‘Disney Imagineer’ Inducted Into Inventors Hall Of Fame

NewsOne Featured Video Source: VCG / Getty Disney research fellow and imagineer Lanny Smoot was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The esteemed honor spotlights his important contributions to the global brand’s most beloved attractions. The Disney Parks Blog mentions that Smoot is the first Disney Imagineer to receive the prestigious honor and […]

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Tech-Savvy Pirates (Not That Kind) Are Reportedly Costing Streaming Services $30 Billion A Year

Despite the best efforts of Hollywood, including the formation of a task force in 2018 to crack down on illegal downloads, piracy continues to be a massive thorn in the side of streamers. According to a new report, Disney+, Paramount+, and Peacock are particularly feeling the effects as the burgeoning platforms have been hit by […]

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John Oliver Dares Disney To Sue With A New ‘Last Week Tonight’ Promo Prominently Featuring ‘Steamboat Willie’-Era Mickey Mouse

The year kicked off in fine fettle with yet another beloved Disney character entering the public domain: Mickey Mouse, or at least the early versions of him, who joins the also now free Winnie the Pooh and others. It didn’t take long for a slew of decidedly un-family-friendly Mickey movies to be announced. And just […]

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Disney looks to have figured out a limitless VR floor prototype that’s a careful step towards a real-world holodeck

The dream of any sci-fi fan is a functioning holodeck. Just step into a humble room and be transported into another world, time period (probably in 1930’s Chicago, if you’re one particularly popular sci-fi TV show), get up to hijinks, and come crashing back into reality when it all goes dreadfully wrong. Well, sci-fi fans, […]

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RIP: Ron DeSantis’ Dreams of Becoming President, And All His Absurd Campaign Moments

NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE – JANUARY 19: Republican presidential candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at the Courtyard by Marriott Nashua on January 19, 2024 in Nashua, New Hampshire. DeSantis continues campaigning in New Hampshire ahead of that state’s primary on January 23.Photo: Brandon Bell (Getty Images) Florida Governor Ron […]

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Ron DeSantis And His Most Ignorant Campaign Moments

NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE – JANUARY 19: Republican presidential candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at the Courtyard by Marriott Nashua on January 19, 2024 in Nashua, New Hampshire. DeSantis continues campaigning in New Hampshire ahead of that state’s primary on January 23.Photo: Brandon Bell (Getty Images) Florida Governor Ron […]

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A New Canadian Streaming Bundle Brings Netflix, Disney+ And Prime Video Together Like One Big Happy Family

Do you remember Cable? Yeah, it’s been a while, but Cable was so good to you! You could have all of these channels and flip through them like a magician with a little deck of cards. And no matter how uncertain or chaotic life was, you could always be certain that there was a rerun […]

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Disney CCG Lorcana lets you ruin your deck with 99 copies of the puppies from 101 Dalmatians, if that’s your sort of thing

I don’t have the kind of deep pockets to really get into trading card games—but I do like watching the meta fluctuate from afar. Disney’s CCG has been of particular interest, because weird strategies keep emerging around obscure characters like Hiram Flaversham. Or in this case, anti-strategies that you have no good reason to use. […]

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Marvel Star Calls Out ‘Insane’ Racist Criticism of Indigenous Heroes

Not once since “Iron Man” was released in 2008, has anyone asked Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans or any of the other countless white men who star in the franchise if multiple stories about white male heroes is necessary. Dealing With Grief? “They’re In A Better Place Now” Might Not Be The Right Thing To […]

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WTF! Elon Musk Seems to Endorse Tweet Saying Students at HBCUs Have Low IQs

Elon Musk endorsed a tweet Tuesday that suggested graduates from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have IQs approaching “borderline intellectual impairment.” This isn’t the first time the billionaire celebrated blatant bigotry on his platform in recent months. In November, Musk promoted a tweet that said Jews push “hatred against whites.” Dealing With Grief? “They’re […]

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What!? Did Elon Musk Just Endorse Tweet Saying Students at HBCUs Have Low IQs?

Elon Musk endorsed a tweet Tuesday that suggested graduates from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have IQs approaching “borderline intellectual impairment.” This isn’t the first time the billionaire celebrated blatant bigotry on his platform in recent months. In November, Musk promoted a tweet that said Jews push “hatred against whites.” Dealing With Grief? “They’re […]

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The Evolution of Halle Bailey

Chloe x Halle – Do It (Official Video) Halle has two studio albums with her sister, The Kids Are Alright (2018) and Ungodly Hour (2020) and a mixtape, The Two of Us (2017). They also wrote and recorded the theme song, “Grown”, for the show Grown-ish. Halle played the recurring character, Sky Forster, on the […]

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‘Agatha: Darkhold Diaries’ Season 1: Everything To Know Including The Release Date, Cast, Trailer, & More Info

Following the smash success of Marvel’s first Disney+ series, WandaVision, the studio didn’t waste time greenlighting a spinoff starring Kathryn Hahn‘s scene-stealing Agatha Harkness. While it’s been over two years since Marvel announced the Agatha spinoff, the series is reportedly on its way to Disney+ in the very near future. Now titled Agatha: Darkhold Diaries, […]

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Disney-Owned ABC News Interviews Jonathan Majors After Disney-Owned Marvel Drops Actor Convicted Of Assault

NewsOne Featured Video Source: ABC News/Michael Le Brecht II / ABC News/Michael Le Brecht II In a twist, ABC News – which is owned by the Walt Disney Company – has scored an exclusive interview with Jonathan Majors following the actor’s recent conviction for assaulting his ex-girlfriend that culminated in him being dropped by Marvel […]

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Ready, Set, Binge: TV Series We Can’t Wait to Obsess Over in 2024

Star Trek: Discovery | Final Season Exclusive Clip (SDCC 2023) | Paramount+ It’s time to say goodbye to Burnham and the Discovery crew, and honestly, we’re not ready. This has been such a spectacular entry into the “Star Trek” universe, it’s hard to imagine not getting caught up in the heartbreaking, yet entertaining, adventures of […]

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23 Moments from 2023 That We Did NOT See Coming

Photo: Getty Images, Fulton County Jail (Getty Images) The year of 2023 had a whole bunch of WTF-jaw-dropping-are you serious? moments. Some days, you had to take a pause after reading a headline because of the information you were about to receive. Advertisement The government dropped a bomb on us about aliens, the environment started […]

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Year-End Binge: The Best TV Shows of 2023

Poker Face | Charlie Confronts A Pair of Unlikely Suspects Natasha Lyonne is Charlie Cale, a fiery casino employee on the run, who also happens to be a human lie detector. As she travels across the country, she repeatedly finds herself landing in absurd murder-mysteries. The cases of the week are riveting, but it’s the […]

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