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Trailer Roundup: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion Is Near and It Will Be All the Way Black
Let’s talk about how unpredictable 2020 is. Yes, again. This is our version of small talk now. I had a whole plan to center this trailer roundup around Christmas movies and TV shows since this week will feature a noticeable amount of holiday trailers. But then, early this morning, HBO Max sent a press release…
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YouTube Announces New Content to Amplify Black Voices Including a Patrisse Cullors Documentary and an HBCU Livestream Special
As we’ve witnessed over the past few months, there is a racial reckoning happening across several industries. Whether it’s Hollywood or tech, the journey toward abolishing systemic racism seems to be starting with open and honest conversations and ideally, ending with actual substantive change. In the spirit of complete honesty (which we’re certainly known to…
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When Black Lives Are Under Attack, What Do We Do? Stand Up, Fight Back!
It seemed like the “alt-right” got the memo that spewing hateful rhetoric and inciting violence like we saw last year in Charlottesville, Va., only further marginalizes them. The few neo-Nazis, white nationalists and sympathizers who were present at the Unite the Right 2 March were completely dwarfed and drowned out by thousands of counter-protesters. Black…
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To White Folks Who Dance With Devils: ‘What Kind of Extremists Will You Be?’
In a press conference during which Donald Trump shed any pretense of being anything other than a white supremacist demagogue deploying his power in the service of fascism, hate-mongering and violence wrought from the desperate need whiteness has to preserve itself, he said this: Trump: Well, George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington…
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3 Reasons Trump’ll Be President for 8 Years Unless White Liberals Grow a Spine (or Maxine Waters Takes Over)
As a black femme living under the United States’ first Orange administration, every piece of “breaking news” makes me feel like I’m living in Groundhog Day. You know, that movie with Bill Murray? Yeah, that one. Not a day goes by when you wake up in the morning and don’t hear that the Orange has…