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Strong Black Animation: The Obamas and Doc McStuffins Creator Team Up on New Series Ada Twist, Scientist
Get ready for a bit more Black in STEM representation—and this time, it’s animated! As Deadline reports, Netflix has ordered forty 12-minute episodes of a new animated preschool series from Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground Productions called Ada Twist, Scientist. The TV series, created by Doc McStuffins creator Chris Nee, is adapted…
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'We Can't Be Afraid to Challenge Our Own People': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Gets Crunk With Brittney Cooper
“There is no Black Freedom Project if you don’t care about Black women.” If there’s one belief upon which “crunk feminist,” author, scholar and educator Brittney Cooper has based her life’s work, it’s this core tenet of Black feminism, as previously maintained by brilliant minds from the Combahee River Collective to 19th-century pioneers like Maria…
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The Root Jams Weekly (10/2/2020): 'Jams Upon Jams'
This week there has been absolutely too much going on—sometimes you just need to rock with your favorite jams of the moment to get through the day. This week’s list is made up of folks’ personal jams. Jam on it. “Jams Upon Jams” (10/2/2020) Jessica Moulite Majid Jordan “Shake Shake Shake” D Smoke “Lights On”…
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Women Are Prospering: Megan Thee Stallion Is in Wonderland and Cardi B Is Tickled Blackpink
TGIF—and the ‘F’ stands for female…or maybe femme…due to that pesky misogyny, I can barely read the word “female” without thinking of “feeeeemale” (aka the trying-to-be-slick sexist replacement for ‘bitch’). Anyway! The queens of WAP have both released some big deal projects so we figured it would be best to keep up the pattern of…
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Marrrrcus Darling, Do You Know What's New and Black on Netflix in October 2020?
It’s Spooky Season, also known as October! We’re in a new month which means we need to get into what Netflix’s Strong Black Lead has in store. The month kicks off with a bang and there are a few titles already on the streaming platform right now. First up, Boomerang. Whether it’s the longstanding debate…
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Break Out the Prosecco! Cheers to Issa Rae's New Media Production Company, Hoorae
*Insecure Mirror Rap* Her name is Issa and she’s here to slay, gonna make sure you remember the name of Rae! Issa Rae has officially launched Hoorae, a media company consolidating her entertainment production ventures for film, television and digital, Variety reported on Wednesday. This is a new and shiny name change from her previously…
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Dawn Porter on Documenting Rep. John Lewis: 'Telling Untold and Overlooked Stories Is Good Trouble'
It’s been a few months since the world lost one of its greatest, Rep. John Lewis, and of course, his grand legacy will live on. One of the ways that has been made possible is the recent documentary chronicling his 60-plus years of activism, John Lewis: Good Trouble. Directed by Dawn Porter, John Lewis: Good…
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Academy Dialogues Exclusive Clip: Gina Prince Bythewood Recalls the 1st Time She Saw Herself Onscreen
As part of its Academy Aperture 2025 initiative, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently launched a virtual panel series called Academy Dialogues: It Starts With Us, designed to open up discussions on race and gender equity in filmmaking. For the next panel, The Academy partnered up with ICON MANN (a media and…
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Be My Biopic Star: Zendaya in Talks to Play Ronettes Lead Singer Ronnie Spector in Film Adaptation of Her Life
Fresh off her historic Emmy win for her starring role in HBO’s Euphoria, Zendaya is now in talks to star as singer Ronnie Spector in an upcoming biopic about the legendary front woman of the girl group, the Ronettes. As Deadline reports, A24 is putting together a film package that will have Zendaya in the…
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Issa Rae Doesn't Want to Be Hollywood's 'Tokenized Person' for Diversity Hiring Practices
In Hollywood, one of the most notable things to have come out of the pandemic (other than a severe pivot from how film and television sets used to function) is a conversation about the industry’s “reckoning” on how it has treated the Black creators who work within it. On the surface, Hollywood gatekeepers are being…