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Iron Fist Is Too Annoyingly And Inappropriately White To Be Any Good
Iron Fist, for all intents and purposes, is televised gentrification pre-equipped with its own heroin addiction. It is painstakingly everything I hate about Williamsburg, Austin, San Francisco, and anywhere else hipsters meet & breed like drugged addicted rabbits in chinos. Honestly, I can break down many issues with the show like this without spoilers: It’s…
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Dave Chappelle Talks Comeback and Key & Peele Gripe
As of 12 a.m. Tuesday, Netflix had released the first of its three Dave Chappelle comedy series, which have marked the comedian’s comeback to television. But on Monday, the Washington, D.C.-raised comic spoke about the break he took from his career, as well as his issues with Key & Peele. “I was in this very…
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Hazing Doesn’t Exist Only in Black Greek Organizations
“It is easier to build strong children than repair broken men,” advises Professor Hughes (played by Alfre Woodard), dropping a Frederick Douglass quotation on Zurich (Trevor Jackson), the protagonist of Netflix’s black frat drama Burning Sands. Set at a nameless HBCU where pledging is forced underground because hazing has been banned, Netflix’s Burning Sands follows…
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Exclusive: Preview Netflix’s Burning Sands Movie, an Exploration of Pledging and Hazing
There is a certain unspoken etiquette to which members of all families must agree. Whether they are blood relatives, football teammates or sorority sisters, they all understand the unwritten rule that applies to these bonds: Don’t put our business in the streets. Before Netflix has even released its newest movie focusing on a black fraternity…
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Iron Fist Actor Explains Why He Deleted Twitter After Diversity Debate
When Netflix announced its Iron Fist series, some people (not all) hoped that the series would cast an Asian actor as Danny Rand. But what they got instead included the series’ creators sticking to the comic and Finn Jones being cast as Rand, a white guy who masters martial arts and becomes better than his…
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Netflix Announces Premiere Date for 2 Dave Chappelle Specials
And in the midst of all this darkness, there is a ray of light. Netflix just spilled the premiere deets for two of three Dave Chappelle comedy specials that the video-streaming site promised us. And it’s sooner than you think. On Thursday, Netflix announced that two of the stand-up specials will premiere on Tuesday, March…
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Netflix Releases Trailer for Fraternity Hazing Film Burning Sands
The controversial hazing that some say still occurs in black Greek organizations is being brought to the forefront in the upcoming Netflix original movie Burning Sands. Burning Sands takes a look at fraternity pledging through the eyes of Zurich (Trevor Jackson) as he navigates through Hell Week and is torn between doing what’s right—not turning…
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Dear White People Creator Responds to Netflix ‘Boycott’
Justin Simien, the creator of Dear White People, has a few words for the special snowflakes who are boycotting Netflix because the upcoming series’ title and subject matter have them shedding white tears. Shortly after Netflix announced the premiere date of the 10-episode series, some white people got all butt-hurt because: “Dear White People” sounds…
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‘Dear White People’: The Secret White Email That Started the Netflix Boycott
On Wednesday, butt-hurt wypipo everywhere joined together to boycott Netflix because of the trailer for the new show Dear White People. After Issa Rae’s Insecure and Russian spies exposed America’s secret white email network last year, we managed to hack into the white server and unearth the email that started the entire Netflix controversy: Dear…
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Netflix Sets Premiere Date for Dear White People
Dear White People is finally getting its time to shine as a series on Netflix. On Tuesday the streaming service announced that the 10-episode series will premiere April 28. Tessa Thompson will not be returning as Samantha White, but Logan Browning will take over the role. Justin Simien, the writer and director of the 2014…