casey affleck
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2024 Oscars: Black Artists and Movies That Should’ve Won Major Awards
‘Malcolm X,’ ‘Black Panther,’ ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It’ are some of the films that deserved Oscars.
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Star Letitia Wright Says She’s ‘Moved On’ From Vaccine Controversy
The actress called out The Hollywood Reporter for including her in a ‘vile’ write-up published on Monday.
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Even When White People Finally Get It Right, They Still Get It Wrong
In one of the most entertaining “spontaneous” bits I’ve ever seen performed at the Academy Awards, Jimmy Kimmel allowed a group of flabbergasted and starstruck tourists into the Dolby Theater to walk past the audience. This, of course, introduced the world to #GaryFromChicago and his wife — computer generated composites of every Black uncle and…
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Why Casey Affleck's Win Aint A Defense Against Nate Parker's Loss
A few months ago, widespread rumblings about Casey Affleck’s sexual allegations began to surface in my social media space. To be completely real, my very first encounter was when someone dropped a NY Mag link in my women-centric industry Google Group. Not on my Twitter timeline, not on my Facebook feed, not via Instagram scrolling.…
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Nate Parker Bashed for Sexual Assault Allegations, but What About Casey Affleck?
Recently, on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, co-host Charlamagne tha God asked guests Jamilah Lemieux and Amber Phillips about Nate Parker. Among his varying questions on the controversial subject, Charlamagne referenced the notion of a double standard in that Parker can’t evade backlash over accusations of sexual assault the way that white celebrities such as…
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Kanye West Is What Happens When Whiteness Becomes The Standard
Admittedly, reminding myself that Whiteness isn’t any sort of standard to measure myself by is a concept I still wrestle with. Even today, as I’m acknowledging the existence of White privilege, of White supremacy, and of the creation of Whiteness, I have to consciously urge myself not to allow it to infect me. But it’s so pervasive,…