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Trendy’s 10 Best Flicks of 2017
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Ruth Negga Talks ‘Loving’
She plays Mildred Loving, a black woman whose anger over being banished from Virginia for marrying a white man led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling.…
Usher Plays Sugar Ray Leonard in “Hands of Stone”
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