#blackhogwarts
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It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye: The Long AF Year of 2018
It’s that time where people reminisce about the good, the bad and the ugly of their year. Fortunately, I had an amazing year—much of which had to do with becoming a video producer at The Root. (Ask any of my family or friends, I haven’t stopped doing the Milly Rock since.)And despite being an overall…
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Zoe Kravitz Literally Embodies Black Girl Magic In Bewitching New Fantastic Beasts Sequel
“I hope young brown people see the movie and see a reflection of themselves and feel included and represented.” text The magical world of Harry Potter just got a little blacker. Zoe Kravitz plays Leta Lestrange in the new Fantastic Beasts sequel, much to the delight of #BlackHogwarts. And considering the previous backlash and erasure…
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Black Girl Magic and Black Boy Joy Hit Platform 9 3/4, and #BlackHogwarts Was Born
Although we now have Black Panther, Black Mirror and A Wrinkle in Time—films that, in fact, employ black actors to play black characters—a few years back, black folks in mainstream sci-fi and fantasy were few and far between. As Ashley Nkadi recently wrote for The Root, we were usually “erased” from these genres, though rich racial…