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In 2020, 12 Years A Slave Director Steve McQueen created a sweepingly cinematic anthology miniseries for the BBC called Small Axe about the lives...
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In 2020, 12 Years A Slave Director Steve McQueen created a sweepingly cinematic anthology miniseries for the BBC called Small Axe about the lives...
Take an engrossing deep dive into the cultural influences of Black Panther, from the development of the Marvel Comics character in the 1960s to...
In most horror films, it can feel like people of color are shoehorned in as a throwaway death or comic relief. In The Blackening,...
Words and Photographs by Sophie Bramly Published by Soul Jazz Books Hip-Hop is king. For all the mainstream music dominance convincingly chronicled during this...
It feels like we’re standing at the gates of hell. This week has been, namely, a lot. A lot of grief, mourning, anger, dismay,...
Produced by Debra Martin Chase, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Gregory Allen Howard Screenplay by Gregory Allen Howard, and Kasi Lemmons Story by Gregory Allen Howard...
On Monday, my legs were shot. Like, no energy in them at all when I walked, or moved them in any way. Stuck in...
Produced by Dyana Winkler, Tina Brown Written by Dyana Winkler Directed by Dyana Winkler, Tina Brown Featuring Phelicia Wright, Reggie Brown, Buddy Love ...
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart examines the devastating effect British Colonialism had on Nigerian societal order. Achebe’s text forces us to consider the legacy...
What do you say about Black Panther? Where do you begin? This movie, a piece of the Disney-owned Marvel Studios blockbuster machine, another cog...
I won’t lie. It’s been difficult to want to write about pop culture right now. Not after Donald Trump was elected president. That election...
Goodness gracious! There was no getting through this past week as a black nerd without seeing Marvel’s Luke Cage series on Netflix. Unfortunately, I...
Produced by Nate Parker, Kevin Turen, Jason Michael Berman, Aaron L. Gilbert, Preston L. Holmes Story by Jean McGianni Celestin, Nate Parker Written and...
Where is my mind? These days, often not in the best place. Not after America’s week from hell, in which black men Alton Sterling...
A few years ago, in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, my nerd-pop culture mind...
You guys: Ta-Nehisi Coates is going to write Black Panther. TA-NEHISI COATES – Pulitzer Prize-winning author at The Atlantic, America’s premier writer on race and...
By Erin Maxwell Back in 1968, Warner Bros. took 11 of their cartoons off the air. The infamous “Censored Eleven” were pulled from syndication,...
In 1963 a record label began on the 12th floor of 156 Fifth Avenue in New York City by releasing its first LP. Bernard...
September 6th marked the anniversary of the death in 1978 of one of music’s great producers of the 1950’s and 1960’s, Tom Wilson. Although his...
Kelan Phil Cohran is a jazz musician currently in his mid eighties. Born in Oxford, Mississippi he grew up in St. Louis, Missouri where,...