Movies
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A Sandra Bland Documentary Is Coming to HBO
The story of Sandra Bland will be coming to HBO this fall. On Wednesday, HBO confirmed their fall lineup of documentaries, including Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland. The documentary will give an inside look at Bland’s life up until her death and feature video blogs that Bland made. Also, her…
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Blindspotting Is the Perfect Metaphor for Implicit Bias
What are your blind spots? When you see a black person in a white neighborhood, do you question what they are doing there? When you see a white person in a black neighborhood, do you assume they are gentrifying? What if they’ve lived there all their life? What if they actually do belong there? Is…
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I Knew the Story of Whitney Houston Was Sad, But My God!
This article contains major spoilers. You know that haunting feeling you have after watching Roots, 12 Years a Slave, Amistad or any other slave-based movie—that feeling of, it’s over but order was never restored? It’s over but I still want to hit my ugly cry. It’s over but pain is still clinging to the air…
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I Interviewed Denzel Washington About The Equalizer 2. He Really is Everybody’s Uncle
I recently had the pleasure of attending a screening in Los Angeles for The Equalizer 2. The film—directed by Antoine Fuqua—opens Friday, July 20, and it marks the first time both Fuqua and Denzel Washington have ever done a sequel to one of their own films. Washington reprises his role as ex-CIA agent Robert McCall,…
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All Good in the Hood: Jamie Foxx Will Star in New Robin Hood Movie
Jamie Foxx often plays villains in the movies he appears in but in the new version of Robin Hood what is bad is good. Although Foxx’s character Little John won’t be the one physically robbing the hood (which I would have loved to have seen) Foxx will be showing Taron Egerton, who will be playing…
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The Hate U Give Aims to Create Empathy While Offering a Portrait of Why Black Lives Matter
The Hate U Give is a New York Times best-selling young adult novel by Angie Thomas that chronicles the life of Starr Carter, a 16-year-old who is from a poor, black neighborhood, but attends a fancy private school in the ‘burbs. One sad, fateful night, Starr’s best friend Khalil is shot and killed by a…
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Set It Off Has One of the Blackest Scenes in All of Cinema That Nobody Ever Talks About
Set It Off is a movie I love watching. It’s such a nonsensical movie for so many reasons that it all blends perfectly, if you let the liquor tell it. It’s one of the greatest mediocre movies in the African-American Cinematic Theater canon. Once you add in the soundtrack, it really is iconic for so…
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10 Thoughts About Boyz n The Hood, Released 27 Years Ago Today, and Why It Still Matters
On July 12, 1991, Boyz n the Hood hit theaters nationwide after early screenings in Los Angeles and New York City. As a 12-year-old living in Germany at the time who saw it while visiting relatives in Five Points, Ala., that summer, the movie changed a lot for me. Apparently, I wasn’t alone. 1. I…
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Winston Duke Is Going in the Cage to Play Kimbo Slice in New Biopic
Winston Duke, aka M’Baku from Black Panther, will be taking on a new role, this time as Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson in a new biopic. This will be Duke’s first lead role. Deadline confirmed that the 31-year-old Trinidadian will portray the Bahamian-born MMA brawler in Backyard Legend. The film will be produced by Steve Lee…