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Warner Bros. Is Producing a Feature Film Based on a Comic Where Only Black Folks Have Superpowers
Shhh, don’t tell Terry Crews, but I think a Black supremacist comic just got acquired by a major movie studio. Seriously, according to Deadline, Warner Bros. will be adapting a feature film based on Black, a comic written and created by Kwanza Osajyefo and Tim Smith 3. Here’s the kicker—the comic is set in “a…
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Black Music Groups With 3-Letter* Names, Ranked
I started thinking about SWV. And then I started thinking about TLC.
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New Jersey Karen Harasses and Calls Police on Black Neighbors for Building a Patio on Their Own Property
Maybe it really is time we stop giving white people who seek to weaponize the police against Black people cutesy little nicknames like “BBQ Becky” or “Central Park Karen.” Perhaps it’s time for more fitting monikers like “Terrorist Tammy” or “Killer by Police Kathy.” In Montclair, N.J., a white woman has been dubbed “Permit Karen”…
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Tim Scott, the Lone Black Republican Senator, Tasked With Coming Up With GOP's Police Reform Plan, and I’m Not Mad
The only thing Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell (R) could tell me about is how he lives in the sewer with his three turtle friends from high school and why he listens to a rat. Other than that, Mitch McConnell and his saggy neck skin can take a long walk off a short pier into a…
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Best Black-Led Movies and Shows Streaming on HBO Max Right Now
Denzel Washington, Zendaya, Taraji P. Henson and Issa Rae are some of the Black stars featured on the streaming service.
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Joe Biden’s Gaffes Are Snapshots as to How He Really Thinks
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Steve Urkel of the Democratic presidential hopefuls, is known for his gaffes, but his whole “Did I do that?” bit after sticking his foot in his mouth is getting old. On Thursday, Biden told a group of mostly minority voters in Iowa that “poor kids” are just as bright…
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President Trump Needs a New Black as Ben Carson Will Leave HUD at the End of the First Term
The president’s senior most black, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, is leaving the Trump administration at the end of Trump’s first term. “I will certainly finish out this term,” Carson told Newsmax’s John Gizzi, Monday. After Carson’s cryptic answer, Gizzi pressed him on whether he’d be interested in serving a second term to…
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A Tale of Two Faces
My mother tells me I look like my grandmother, a brown belle whose features I know only through faded photographs and choppy 8mm film strips. I try to imagine the experience of a woman with whom I seem to share a face, with her growing up under Jim Crow in the 1910s and 1920s as…
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Red Table Talk: Jada Pinkett Smith Starts a Multigenerational Dialogue
Just in time for Mother’s Day, one of Hollywood’s most famous moms is inviting us to her table—the red table, that is—for Red Table Talk, a new Facebook series created and hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith, featuring her 17-year-old daughter, Willow, and mom, Adrienne Banfield-Norris. “Motherhood and everything that comes with it is our red-hot…