Entertainment

Why #JanetJacksonAppreciationDay was food to my Black woman soul

10 Black AF things to watch/read/listen to before ‘Black Panther’ drops

Waiting for Wakanda: Black joy on film as epic resistance

‘Black Lightning’ gives hope to nerdy Black kids like me

Four Oscar nominations offer more proof that ‘Get Out’ is game-changing storytelling

A history of white valor: How World War II stories were made to erase violence against Africa

Erykah Badu finding “good” in Hitler highlights the limits of Black empathy after slavery

Yance Ford becomes first trans director to receive an Oscar nomination

HTGAWM’s sex trafficking storyline is a hidden but pervasive narrative for vulnerable Black girls

The question of Blackness: How conversations about Bruno Mars and Cardi B miss the mark

Pre-NOI Malcolm X and Redd Foxx’s misadventures to be explored in new comedic cartoon, ‘Little Red’

The ‘Tales from the Hood’ sequel will be right on time

‘Black Panther’ shatters advance ticket sales records

Here’s a list of 20 of the dopest Black comics set to takeover 2018. You’re welcome!

As a Black woman, I won’t say #Metoo in Rose McGowan’s* movement

Reading ‘Black Museum’ and ‘Get Out’ as comparative Afrofuturist zombie slave narratives

Kendrick Lamar drops first single from Black Panther soundtrack ft. SZA

Netflix’s ‘Bright’ is copaganda, plain and simple

“Family Feud” video leads to a feud between the Catholic League and Jay-Z

Black Mirror’s “Black Museum”: The slave revolt fantasy Hollywood never intended to make?

Powerful women in Hollywood come together to release multi-faceted anti-harassment plan

By consensus, ‘Bright’ is trash, trading in tropes, but Netflix thinks it’s a success

Lorde cancels Israel show after calls for boycott due to treatment of Palestinians

Don’t touch our hair: In hilarious online game ‘Hair Nah’, Black folk’s hair is off limits

Actress Jessica De Gouw still believes WGN’s canceled ‘Underground’ tells a complete story

A 2018 calendar and watch list for Black moviegoers and film buffs

Viola Davis to produce docuseries exploring police brutality cases on TV One

But Black women are not cocoons: I’m tired of being expected to mother Black men and applaud when they finally grow up

He’s gotta stop it: A Black, polyamorous femme on the Netflix “She’s Gotta Have It” reboot

Lena Waithe set to join ‘Dear White People’ in Season 2

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