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Fox Reaches $10 Million Discrimination Settlement
Kelly Wright, Sole Black Male Anchor, Agrees to Leave Literary Lion Tom Wolfe Had His Critics on Race Amazon Adopts ‘Rooney Rule’ for Board Vacancies Watchdog Group Wants Probe of Gaza ‘War Crimes’ Senate Votes to Hold Line on Net Neutrality ESPN, Netflix Plan 10-Parter on Jordan, Bulls Tegna Foundation Awards 9 Grants for Diversity…
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In Living Color: Danielle Brooks Brightens Up Essence Magazine
Brown, body-positive and beautiful in brilliant hues—that’s Danielle Brooks inside the pages of May’s Essence magazine, where the Orange Is the New Black actress models a spectrum of vibrant looks styled by Fashion and Beauty Director Julee Wilson. While Kerry Washington wows on this issue’s black-and-white cover, Brooks gives us a color rush inside, flexing…
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Watch: Marvel’s Luke Cage Season 2 Trailer Introduces New Supervillain
Following the success of the first season of Luke Cage, Netflix released the trailer for season 2 of its acclaimed superhero series, and it’s chock-full of tidbits for the upcoming 13-episode season. The trailer features the introduction of a new antagonist. Although his name suggests that he is the nemesis of DJ Khaled, Bushmaster is…
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Dear White People Vol. 2 Digs Deeper Into Modern-Day Segregation, Microaggressions, Twitter Trolls and More
There’s something so refreshing about entertainment that tackles larger issues within the black community. Getting to see black people live out their full lives, all while staring down racism, microaggressions, police brutality, modern-day segregation, biracial identity, sexual identity, abortion and more, is something that’s becoming far less foreign. Netflix’s Dear White People has returned with…
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Netflix Producer Accuses Harvey Weinstein of Rape and Physical Assault in New Lawsuit
A Netflix series producer has filed a lawsuit against former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein that alleges five years of rape, plus physical and verbal abuse—treatment she endured under repeated threats that Weinstein would end her career. Alexandra Canosa, an associate producer on the Netflix series Marco Polo, which Weinstein executive-produced, filed the suit Monday in…
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White Actor Says He Can Play Black Character Because He Raps and Comes From ‘Urban Background’
A person of colonizing descent recently explained why it’s perfectly reasonable for him to play a black character on a new Netflix series, citing the fact that he raps, listens to black comedians, sponsors black youths and, most importantly, has an “urban background.” Travis Turner, the noticeably melanin-deficient Canadian rapper known as “Little T,” took…
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True to the Game Is What I’d Expect to Happen if Tyler Perry Directed an Episode of Power
I’m a Netflix black-movie connoisseur. I’ve not been shy about the fact that if a movie exists and has lots of black people in it, there’s a better-than-99 percent chance that I’ll watch it, no matter what. They don’t even have to speak English. I may not make it all the way through—some movies are…
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Dear White People Returns to Netflix for Another Season on May 4
For those of you who have been wanting to find out what happens with Sam, Troy, Coco, Lionel, Gabe, Joelle, Reggie and their fellow students at Winchester University, your wait is almost over. Dear White People returns May 4 for its second season on Netflix. Based on the highly acclaimed 2014 film of the same…