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Regina King Was Awesome in Seven Seconds; Seven Seconds Was Not As Awesome as Regina King
****SPOILER ALERT: THIS WRITE-UP WILL HAVE SPOILERS.**** Netflix’s original show Seven Seconds is the second television show that I watched purely because of the reactions on my social media timelines, with the first being This Is Us. I knew Regina King was in it and she’s a national treasure, but I had no idea what…
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One to Watch: Clare-Hope Ashitey Makes Her Mark in Netflix’s Seven Seconds
It is indisputably a season of #BlackExcellence, filled with superheroes, anti-heroes and black characters taking us to fantastic realms accessible only in the imagination or via the groundbreaking films Black Panther and the upcoming A Wrinkle in Time. But when we leave the theaters, here we are, in the real world. A world where there…
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Watch: Exclusive Clip of Regina King in Netflix’s 7 Seconds
Netflix’s upcoming crime anthology series, Seven Seconds, stars Regina King and Russell Hornsby as parents of a black teenager who was killed by a white police officer in a hit-and-run, and his fellow corrupt officers’ attempt to cover up the killing. The series, which was executive-produced by The Killing’s Veena Sud, was inspired by the…
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25 Years Later, the Power and Brilliance of Boyz n the Hood Still Resonate
“In any type of writing program, they say to write about what you know,” John Singleton told Walter Mosley during a conversation following a 25th-anniversary screening of his classic film debut, Boyz n the Hood, in New York in June. “When you’re a certain age, you only have a limited amount of life experience. I…