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Rebels of Black History: How ‘Joy Goddess’ A’Lelia Walker Created Revolutionary Spaces for the Artistic and the Sensual
She helped artists and intellectuals be the fullest versions of themselves in a country that treated blackness and queerness as a crime.
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The Dark Tower: Mediocre Marksmanship and Magical Negroes
The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption and The Shining are a trio of renowned Stephen King titles turned to film. And they are also leading exhibits for the Stephen King “Magical Negro theory,” the idea that a lone black character is at the behest of white characters and protagonists by whom he’s surrounded. This black…