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#BlackGirlMagic: Meet the Creative Gunning to Bring Black Movie-Streaming to the Diaspora
DeShuna Spencer admits that the idea of an online library of black indie films started from ambitions she’d admit to being “a little self-serving.” “The idea literally came to me after scrolling through a bunch of cable channels and not seeing anything that I wanted to watch,” she says. “I was frustrated because there was…
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Thanksgiving and Chill: All the Shows to Binge-Watch Before You Get ‘The Itis’
It’s that time of year again. White folks are clamoring at Starbucks for their pumpkin-spice lattes, and black folks are calling around to make sure Aunt Sheila is still making her signature turkey this year … it’s Thanksgiving! And while many of us side-eye the massacre and theft masquerading as a family-friendly holiday, we’ve managed…
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Mudbound Is Another Exhausting Tale of Inequality and Racism in America, but at Least It Was Executed Properly
When there’s historical blackness in film, it’s usually displayed through slavery or Jim Crow. There’s never really any in between. But there is a very palpable significance in remembering, reliving and recognizing black history and respecting how far we’ve come (even though 2017 mirrors the past more times than we’re comfortable with). I guess that’s…
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‘She’s Gotta Have It’ … but Do We?
I remember the first time I saw She’s Gotta Have It, Spike Lee’s groundbreaking, critically acclaimed and very first “joint,” which premiered in 1986. When it debuted on HBO a year later, I was 12, a latchkey kid, and the parental controls that would lock me out of my parents’ premium channels after school had…
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House of Cards Producer Investigating on-Set Harassment, Sexual Assault Claims Against Kevin Spacey
o Eight people who either currently work or previously worked on House of Cards have come forward with allegations that Kevin Spacey made the show’s set a “toxic” work environment through a pattern of sexual harassment, with at least one employee accusing Spacey of sexually assaulting him. CNN reported Thursday that all eight people spoke…
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House of Cards Production Suspended Indefinitely in Wake of Kevin Spacey Allegations
Filming of the sixth and final season of the Netflix series House of Cards was halted indefinitely Tuesday morning after allegations of unwanted sexual advances made against the show’s star, actor Kevin Spacey, came to light late Sunday evening. In a joint statement made to Deadline, the producers of the show said, “MRC and Netflix…
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Netflix Cuts the Cord on House of Cards
A little more than 12 hours after Star Trek: Discovery star Anthony Rapp publicly accused actor Kevin Spacey of making unwanted sexual advances toward him in 1986 when he was just 14 years old, Netflix announced that it would be pulling the plug on Spacey’s popular series, House of Cards, after the next season. Deadline…
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Watch: Official Trailer for Netflix’s Mudbound
Netflix has released the official trailer for a film that has critics already buzzing about its Oscar promises. The Dee Rees-directed Mudbound is set in Mississippi after World War II and tells the story of a black family and a white family and how they attempt to coexist. Of course, with the story being set…
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‘I’m a Sex-Positive, Polyamorous Pansexual’: Spike Lee’s Nola Darling Is Back, Baby!
In what undoubtedly was a black woman ahead of her time, the character Nola Darling (played by Tracy Camilla Johns) was introduced to the world by Spike Lee as the lead in his very first film, 1986’s She’s Gotta Have It (Lee also faced some pushback for a problematic rape scene in it, a scene…
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Watch: Yance Ford Tackles Grief and Racial Injustice in the Moving Documentary Strong Island
Filmmaker Yance Ford’s film Strong Island is a must-watch on Netflix. The documentary tells the story of the Ford family and how their lives were forever altered by the shooting death of Yance’s older brother, William, in 1992. He was killed by a white man in the Long Island, N.Y., hamlet of Central Islip, where Yance’s…