black christmas
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13 Black Christmas Specials to Stay Home and Watch During the Holidays
You may be getting older, but these seasonal movies and television shows never do.
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Where to Stream Your Favorite Black Holiday Movies
‘Last Holiday,’ ‘Friday After Next’ and ‘The Best Man Holiday’ are some of the Christmas classics Black audiences are looking for.
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The Caucasian’s Guide to Black Christmas
Editor’s Note: This post originally ran on December 22, 2017 Whether you believe the Christmas tradition is rooted in the pagan holiday Saturnalia, a baby born in swaddling clothing or shamans getting high on magic mushrooms (yes, it is a thing), we can all agree that Christmas has become more than a simple religious remembrance…
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There’s an App for That: Black Mom Delivers Yuletide Cheer With 'Find Black Santa' App
While dreaming of a white Christmas is common during this time of year, there are plenty of parents bouncing from mall to mall dreaming of something else entirely: a Black Santa. Thankfully, psychiatrist Jihan Woods and her appropriately titled Find Black Santa app are here to help. “I really wanted my children to see a…
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Black Christmas: 25 Bingeworthy TV Shows and Movies to Get You In the Holiday Spirit
Every holiday season, the movies and TV specials that are rolled out are of no interest to me. Santa’s cheery white face dominates nearly every screen. I am reminded by every department store’s playlist that the shoppers around me are dreaming of a “White Christmas,” and even Charlie Brown is starting to act funny. Fortunately,…
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Growing Up Without the ‘Christ’ in Christmas: What It’s Like Being Raised by a Christmas-Loving Atheist
Ever since I can remember, two constants have been in my life: My mother was never religious. She went all out for Christmas. Each year she attacked the holidays with an ever increasing fervor. She has lived in the same mostly white neighborhood for 23 years, where all the homes are as homogeneous and drab…
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Snow Ain’t the Only Thing White During Christmas, so I Give You the Top 10 Blackest Holiday TV Shows and Movies
My son Quinn loves Christmas. Like—he loves it in a watch-How the Grinch Stole Christmas-on-the-Fourth of July kind of way. Every year he bombards me with endless Christmas movies and TV specials during the month of December, and that experience has taught me one thing: Snow and eggnog aren’t the only things white during the…
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The Doctor Is In: Reframing the Christmas Blues
Full disclosure: I love Christmas. Like, in a frenetic, maniacal way. I love all the glittering, sparkly, tinsel-covered days leading up to Dec. 25. But glancing at my timeline across social media, I’ve begun to notice a trend: Not everyone shares my sentiments about the season of joy and cheer. And while I understand that…
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#BlackLivesMatter Los Angeles Is Dreaming of a #BlackXmas
Black Lives Matter Los Angeles is encouraging everyone to divest from white corporations, invest in the black community and, if you must buy, to buy black this holiday season with its #BlackXmas campaign, which seeks to resist white supremacy through capitalism. Newsweek reports that Melina Abdullah—a BLM L.A. leader who is also a professor at…