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Entertainment, Movies

3 Generations of Shaft Are Premiering at the American Black Film Festival. Will I Be There? You Damn Right

Remember that complicated man who was misunderstood by everyone but his woman? Well, now there are three of them. It’s been 19 years since the release of John Singleton’s Shaft, starring Samuel L. Jackson. Can you believe it?! And even longer since we first saw Richard Roundtree don the baddest jacket in the game: 48…

By

Tonja Renée Stidhum

Published

February 12, 2019
Entertainment, Social Media

Alexandria Shipp Storms Twitter to Defend Her X-Men Role—Again. But, Why?

Watch out—there’s a storm afoot. Of Alexandra Shipp’s own making. In “making something out of nothing” news, Shipp tweeted something on an otherwise innocuous Monday evening. “Black twitter is so powerful,” she mused beside her freshly polished tiny violin. “One second we’re trying to rally and define why our lives matter, the next we’re making…

By

Tonja Renée Stidhum

Published

January 15, 2019
Beauty + Style

Uncensored: Alexandra Shipp Attempts to Clarify Those Colorism Comments for Glamour Magazine

Alexandra Shipp will not be censored. The 27-year-old actress was best known for her roles in the 2014 biopic, Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B and 2015’s Oscar-nominated Straight Outta Compton before being cast as Marvel superhero Storm in 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse; but Shipp sparked a storm of her own on social media last year when…

By

Maiysha Kai

Published

July 6, 2018
Entertainment

Light-Skinned Black Actress Thinks Black Folks’ Criticism of Colorism Is Racism

Actress Alexandra Shipp had a rough day yesterday. A reply to a fan who tweeted to her about a possible movie pairing of her X-Men character Storm with fellow Marvel Comic character Thor led to a discussion on colorism in Hollywood in which Shipp said that 90 percent of the “racism” she experiences is from…

By

Monique Judge

Published

December 15, 2017