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What Black Movies Can Do Better
At Ebony, Damon Young provides a list of tips for black filmmakers who aspire to make movies that measure up to Coming to America and Love Jones. Anyway, instead of continuing to make the usual myopic and ambiguous remarks about the lack of “memorableness” synonymous with today’s Black films, I’ve decided to be a bit…
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Why I Haven't Seen 'Red Tails' Yet
In an entry at his Very Smart Brothas blog, Damon Young lists several reasons that he has not seen Red Tails, including being turned off by its guilt-based marketing and calling into question the perception that we need to see black faces on the big screen in order to bolster our self-esteem. (Today’s post is…
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Is Jay-Z Now a Relationship Role Model?
In an entry at his Very Smart Brothas blog, Damon Young deconstructs Jay-Z’s past as a so-called player and decides that he does not get to become a role model simply because he overhauled his image. He may be a loving husband and father, but he is not a role model. … But calling the…
