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Star Wars Writer Confirms Lando Calrissian Is Pansexual
Growing up watching Star Wars, I was always in awe of Billy Dee Williams’ character, Lando Calrissian. Hell, I was in awe of Williams in just about anything, including the malt liquor commercials. This week, with the opening of Solo: A Star Wars Story, Donald Glover is stepping into Williams’ perfectly coiffed and conked hair…
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Solo: A Star Wars Story: A Promising Prequel With an Even More Promising Lando
The trouble with prequels is that it’s hard to raise the stakes when you already know certain characters are going to live. And in the same vein, you can predict who’s going to die, but Solo: A Star Wars Story was able to capture the exploration of a pre-New Hope universe with fun dialogue and…
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Judge of Characters: Black Men, White Wives … This Is America
Donald Glover basically broke the internet when he released his video for “This Is America,” a disturbing visual with enough interpretable art all up and through it. Even the biggest art intellectual likely needed to go back and watch it 47 times. I know I did. But that’s a testament to good art, right? You…
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Dear Black Male Nerds: Maybe There’s Another Reason the Popular Black Girls in High School Rejected You
By now you have watched and likely discussed Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover) and his new video, “This Is America.” Whether you love it or hate it, it’s forcing a discussion about the state of black America and making many (white) people uncomfortable in the process. To be sure, I find the dancing more amusing…
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The All-American Question: Can You Truly Love Black People if You Date Outside the Race?
Whether it is about a same-sex, interracial or nonconforming relationship, as a rule, I tend not to involve myself in the question of whom other people choose to love, and it’s not because I have a self-righteous sense of egalitarian, progressive thinking. It’s mostly because I have one universal rule for other people’s masturbation, relationships…
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Black Genius: A Privilege Afforded Only to Straight Black Men
This. Is. America. Whether you love it or hate it or are somewhere in between, Donald Glover’s newest music video, juxtaposing black joy and pain, has folks thinking. Somewhere in between “This is a masterpiece” and “This is blasphemy” are screams from some of the largest (social) media platforms throwing out that ever trite and…
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Met Gala 2018: Did Vogue Catch Your Fave Live on Camera?
Go down a wormhole, but make it fashion. This was pretty much how I spent Tuesday night, watching video after video on Vogue’s YouTube channel, where all of our Met Gala faves were featured talking fashion, true confessions, and their takes on the night’s theme, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” Let’s start with…
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Donald Glover’s ‘This Is America’ Explained by 2 People Who Don’t Pretend to Understand It
Since Donald Glover/Childish Gambino released the awe-inspiring video for his song “This Is America,” the internet has been filled with people explaining the symbolism of the imagery, subtext and subtle references contained in the music video. Those people don’t know shit. Instead of overwhelming you with bullshit phrases gleaned from an art-appreciation class, we decided…
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Black Life, White Wife and the Art Caught in the Middle
Over the weekend, Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, dropped a video for a new song called “This Is America.” You are reading this, which means there’s a better than 90 percent chance that you’ve both seen the video and had a discussion about it already. Probably several. I assume, based on the imagery and visuals…