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Why 2017 Was the Year of Rose Armitage
To be a person of color in America is to always be tangled between dueling worlds. What was different in 2017, more so than any other year in recent memory, was how those polarities were laid bare for everyone else to see. It was the year American streets were crowded with both pussy hats and…
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Boston Globe Measures the City’s Racism
Is Boston ‘The Most Racist City’? Black Press, Ebony Missed Booker Death . . . Globe Business Side Faulted on Harassment “Summit’ on Sexual Misconduct in Newsrooms African American Film Critics Pick ‘Get Out’ Salinas Delivers a Classy, Heartfelt Goodbye Dreamers to Guest-Edit the Guardian This Week Short Takes “Google the phrase ‘Most racist city,’…
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Get Out Receives Top Film of 2017 Honor From African American Film Critics Association
Jordan Peele’s blockbuster film, Get Out, was the big winner of the African American Film Critics Association. The film, a satirical look at race relations, won the Best Film, Best Directing, Best Acting and Best Screenplay recognitions from the world’s largest group of professional black film critics. “The films released in 2017 captured a plethora…
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It’s Official: Jordan Peele Is Bringing Back The Twilight Zone
Fans of Jordan Peele’s Get Out have a new show to get into—The Twilight Zone, the iconic TV series that the genre-breaking director will be rebooting, CBS formally announced Wednesday. The show will be available exclusively on CBS’ streaming platform, CBS All Access, as had been previously reported. According to Entertainment Weekly, the Golden Globe-nominated Peele…
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Jordan Peele Says Tiger Woods Is ‘in the Sunken Place’
My question is: Has Tiger Woods ever not been in the sunken place? This is the man who was so non-black-identified that he made up his own race (including giving Caucasian and American Indian equal footing to black and Asian with an African-American father and a mother from Thailand). Then he turned out to be…
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Was Get Out More Funny or Scary?
That Get Out will compete as a comedy during awards season is not a surprise. Although packed with thrills and scares, it ultimately exists as social satire—which, while not always funny, is a form of comedy. Also, this comedy distinction makes it more likely to win within its categories. For myriad annoying-as-the-fuck reasons, comedies, when…
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10 Things My Black Paranoia Saved Me From
Hi. I’m black and I’m a man. That makes me a black man (by default), and that means I’m paranoid as fuck. Like, I’m pretty sure you’re plotting against me right now, so I’m looking at you crazy. Or at least you might could be. In fact, who is you? Is you is or is…
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20 Things White People Ruined Already This Year
1. Tiki torches 2. Teacups 3. The solar eclipse 4. The Dunk King finale 5. Van Jones 6. Think pieces about Trump voters 7. Sheet cake 8. Avocados 9. Rally permits 10. Fried chicken 11. Tristan Thompson 12. Emojis 13. The name “Nkechi Amare Diallo” 14. Martin Luther King Jr. 15. Bottles of Pepsi 16.…
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Girls Trip Hits $100,000,000 at Box Office, Proving Yet Again That Hollywood Should Always Bet on Black
Girls Trip, the breakout hit of the summer, has crossed the $100 million mark at the box office, proving, yet again, that movies for and by black people can put asses in theater seats. The comedy—starring Jada Pinkett Smith (black), Queen Latifah (black), Tiffany Haddish (black) and Regina Hall (black); directed by Malcolm D. Lee…
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Tiger Woods's Decade-Long Nigga Wake-Up Call
Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes” is one of the most popular, pithy, and eternally relevant quotes ever. It’s also false. Well maybe not false, but incomplete and in need of an amendment for it to be truly true. “In this world nothing…