Oscars
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Billy Porter Wore a Gown and You Will Deal With It
The day of the 2019 Oscars, thousands of men—who I’m presuming live in their parents’ basements and holla from the passenger side of their best friend’s ride—had their already-fragile masculinity shattered when Billy Porter entered the Academy Awards resembling the black Cinderella and bibbidi-bobbidi-booed all over the red carpet. Porter, who has made it known…
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What It Means When White People Call You Racist
The angriest I’ve ever been was when my cousin failed to show up after promising to give me a haircut on the day of my senior prom. Coming in at a close second is the day I gave Gray Segal (not his real name, but close) a black eye. Gray and I had gym together…
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Spike Lee Needed More Than Tea After Green Book Won the Oscar for Best Picture
After multiple Oscar nominations and an honorary award, Spike Lee finally won a competitive Oscar for co-writing the adapted screenplay for his film, BlacKkKlansman. However, he still had to take a backseat to Green Book, which won Best Picture of the year. Backstage, Spike channeled our best drunk uncle and had a few words to…
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Do the White Thing: Racist-In-Chief Calls Spike Lee’s Oscar Speech 'Racist Hit'
I believe that that there is someone on President KKKlansman’s staff whose job it is to bring him clips of news in which people mention or even vaguely allude to his name. Because I don’t believe that there are enough hours in the day, even for a president who spends most of his time ordering…
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As Awards Season Wraps Up, the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards Honor Our Magic
The competition may be fierce for Hollywood’s top honors on Oscars Sunday, but at the annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards luncheon on Wednesday, it was all love … with fierceness of a different sort. This year’s honorees Regina Hall, KiKi Layne, Amandla Stenberg and the “Mother of Black Hollywood” Jenifer Lewis were all…
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One Moment in Time: Only Once Have 2 Black Women Been Nominated for a Best Actress Oscar in the Same Year
Picture it: 1973, at the 45th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, attended by the most celebrated filmmakers, actors and creators in the world. Two cherished living queens in black history, Diana Ross and Cicely Tyson, sat in the audience awaiting the result as Raquel Welch and Gene Hackman rattled off the Best Actress nominees that year.…
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Kevin Hart to 'Assess' Returning to Host the Oscars After Ellen Degeneres Reveals the Academy Wants Him Back
The show’s not over. Well…possibly. Kevin Hart, he of the firm stance against true atonement, recently appeared on Ellen Degeneres’ talk show to thoroughly discuss the grand opening/grand closing of his Oscars hosting gig on national television for the first time. It bears repeating: Kevin Hart was about to secure yet another bag in his…
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Oscars Now Considering Host-less Show After Offering Job to Single, Solitary Straight Male
Another day, another long-standing American institution revealing it has learned absolutely nothing. After Kevin Hart’s decision to relinquish his duties as host after coming under fire for homophobic tweets, and not even a year after the #MeToo movement exposed the depths of bigotry and sexism in Hollywood to the world, the Academy of Motion Pictures…