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Stream of Consciousness: Stay Woke for Black History Month With Netflix and Hulu
The TV powers that be have finally seen the light that black on-screen makes green. However, it was the brilliance of the internet not only to know this first but also to bring it to you in various packages, for your viewing pleasure, at your own convenience. Online-streaming services like Netflix made it easy for…
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Netflix Introduces Video Downloads for Offline Viewing at No Extra Cost
As if Netflix weren’t already beasting the online-video-content game with its stellar original series and large catalog of movie selections, the entertainment company raised the bar once again Wednesday by introducing video downloads at no extra cost to its customer base. In a statement on its website, the company said, “While many members enjoy watching…
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Unique Views, Episode 20: Jive Turkey, Featuring Pam Grier
Are you like me? Have you ever wished that there was a bigger, blacker Netflix for all the blaxploitation movies of the past? Well, wait no more! Introducing Brown Sugar, the biggest, baddest, blackest mutha— Patti LaDanielle: Shut yo’ mouth! Just talking about Brown Sugar on Bounce TV. Seriously, the service is dope, free for the first…
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Dave Chappelle Has 3 Stand-Up Specials Coming to Netflix
If Dave Chappelle’s appearance on Saturday Night Live earlier this month left you wanting more, you are in luck: The comedian has three specials coming to Netflix, the online network announced Monday. As Variety reports, these projects will be Chappelle’s first stand-up TV specials in 12 years. “Dave Chappelle is a legendary voice in comedy—searing,…
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Unique Views, Episode 12: Hillary Clinton, aka Supa Predatah, and Pusha T, BFFs!
Danielle Young, aka Patti LaDanielle, aka one-half of the world’s most dangerous podcast, has the energy of a possum on sleeping pills. Like, seriously. She claims that it’s the weather, but when you’re as hot as ice, as this podcast is, then you don’t have time for lethargy. Nevertheless, I find a way to bring…
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Luke Cage: A Bulletproof Black Man in the Black Lives Matter Era
To deal with my anger over the seemingly unending number of black men and women killed at the hands of those tasked with the duty to serve and protect, I often play N.W.A’s “F—k tha Police” to cope—except I don’t play it loud. I’m afraid the boys in blue (not the Crips; I’m cool with…
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Why Luke Cage Is The Hero Black America Needs Right Now
Netflix has flooded the streaming streets with Luke Cage — the first time a Black character portrayed by an actual Black person is set to star in a title role in the Marvel/Disney universe. For those of us who periodically forsake the rest of our lives on weekends to binge watch things this is a big…
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Yeah, I'm Finished With The Black Suffering Trauma Porn Of Orange Is The New Black
Warning: For those of you who do things like have lives and stuff and haven’t gotten around to watching the latest season of this Netflix show, spoilers ahead. Last Friday, Netflix dropped the latest season of Orange is The New Black, the critically-acclaimed dramedy of life in a minimum-security prison centered around Piper “I Didn’t…