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...and the best acceptance speech at the 8th annual Critics Choice Association Celebration of Black Cinema & Television goes to… Janelle James! The Abbot Elementary star was honored with the Comedy Award – and didn’t have to cry or show titties to be honored...
Artist Glenn Kaino is is a product of the Greatest Generation: Gen X. It’s a generation that gave us hip-hop and the internet, and — the work of Glenn Kaino. his artist career has led him to a role as Chief Creative Officer of the 2.0 era of Napster and the Senior...
This post was originally posted on the DIASPORA newsletter on December 2, 2025. As the year comes to a close, I am trying to cram...
If you turn to page 130 of Tre'vell Anderson's book "We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film", you will see a name within the text. And that name is Dino-Ray Ramos. I'm not putting shine on "We See Each Other" just because of this, but because...
DIE MY LOVE In Die My Love, Katniss Everdeen goes up against her biggest adversary yet: postpartum depression and Edward Cullen as a husband who just doesn’t get it. Lynne Ramsay’s latest can be seen as a dark fever dream of a comedy or just a straight-up...
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Since the news of MTV downsizing its music channels and basically phasing out the foundation on which it was based, I’ve been thinking about all of us who were raised on the cable channel and the cultural impact it has had. From the moment MTV aired the music video...
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