culture
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Sundance’s Tyrel Is Get Out Without Hypnosis or the Sunken Place
Tyrel may immediately draw comparisons to Get Out for its initial premise of an African American finding himself in an awkward situation during a weekend getaway surrounded by white people. But where Sebastian Silva’s Sundance flick differs from Jordan Peele’s Oscar-nominated movie is that Tyrel exists without hypnosis or the sunken place. It doesn’t pack…
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This Country Does Not Care About the Claims of Abused Women, and It Enables the Men Who Have Been Accused
Before Donald Trump even won the presidential election, women had come forward and accused him of various types of sexual misconduct. A recording surfaced in which he bragged about being able to do whatever he wants with women, and in which he said you should just “grab ’em by the pussy.” No one thought he’d…
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John Kelly Is a White Man
On Wednesday night, as the world learned about allegations of domestic violence against presidential aide Rob Porter, pundits and politicians from across the political spectrum focused on White House chief of staff John Kelly’s defense of Porter and Kelly’s recent comments about the laziness of immigrants. The sentiments of the wide-eyed people perplexed by the…
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Watch: Exclusive Clip of Regina King in Netflix’s 7 Seconds
Netflix’s upcoming crime anthology series, Seven Seconds, stars Regina King and Russell Hornsby as parents of a black teenager who was killed by a white police officer in a hit-and-run, and his fellow corrupt officers’ attempt to cover up the killing. The series, which was executive-produced by The Killing’s Veena Sud, was inspired by the…
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What It Feels Like to Receive a Call From Your Child After Cops Draw Their Guns on Him
I’ve had the same headache since 2 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 4. My son has had the same nightmares every night since then as well. Most people will say, “Be lucky he wasn’t shot or killed,” but when you send your child to college, the last thing you expect to happen is for him to call…
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White Supremacy Roundup: 4 Stories That Show How Institutional Racism Works
When the Ku Klux Klan sets a cross on fire, the fact that a few snuff-chewing Caucasian troglodytes have come together to celebrate their low-IQ ideology is as inconsequential as the fact that they are contributing to global warming and deforestation. It has always been about the hoods. The idea that the cowardice of teachers,…
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Marvel Made a Black Panther Movie Partly Because Reginald Hudlin Put the ‘Black’ in Panther
Editor’s note: This excerpt from Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comicbook Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates (published by Diasporic Africa Press, 2018) talks about the impact black filmmaker Reginald Hudlin had on the character. For the first 32 years of its existence, the Black Panther—created by Marvel Comics legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby…
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How Detroit Photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard’s Couch Became a Work of Art
I’m not one to brag, but my friends are all types of amazing. From leaving their mark in the entertainment world, to being able to handcraft jewelry and accessories, and even going from an NFL career to acting, their talents are immeasurable. But when it comes to having an eye for art, photography and interior…
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White Men and Their ‘Blackcents’ Need to Stop Coming for Black Women Online
You know what I am getting increasingly sick of lately? White male culture vultures who think they can say and do anything around black people with impunity. Whether it’s because they have embraced black culture and mimic it or because they married a black person and think that makes them an expert on “the Negro,”…
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When Wakanda Was Real
The reason people love superheroes is that, when done correctly, they are the perfect combination of our wildest fantasies and reality. There is no white guy born on a distant planet who came to Kansas and discovered that he could fly. If you are ever bitten by a bat, you probably want to get a…