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Bad Boys for Life Is So Ridiculous and That’s Not Necessarily a Bad Thing

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Brother’s Keeper: Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size Explores the Mythology and Painful Reality of Brotherhood

Are We Ready to Have a Constructive Conversation About Slave Play? (Because We Saw It for Ourselves, and Have Thoughts)

TIFF 2019: Dolemite Is My Name Is the Comeback King of Blaxploitation

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ABFF 2019: Shaft Highlights Toxic Masculinity, Wet Glitter, and Grits

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