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Here’s a list of 20 of the dopest Black comics set to takeover 2018. You’re welcome!
By Terrence Sage The following is a list of comics either ongoing or releasing this year. It is focused on either Black creative teams penning the adventures of superheroes, or comics that star Black superheroes in a prominent light!
Essence Magazine is back in Black hands!
Essence Magazine was just acquired by Richelieu Dennis, the Liberian founder of Sundial Brands, in a deal that saw his independent firm Essence Ventures LLC wrest control of Essence from Time Inc, which is now owned by the Koch brothers. In the original deal for the purchase of Time Inc by the Koch owned Meredith […]
Black Mirror’s “Black Museum”: The slave revolt fantasy Hollywood never intended to make?
Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers of Black Mirror S4, E6, “Black Museum” I do not trust myself when I enjoy a tale of Black people experiencing unbearably violent situations on screen. Perhaps I have read too much of Frank Wilderson’s Afro-pessimist film critique Red, White and Black, but I am never quite sure whether […]
Branden Miller, the brain behind Joanne the Scammer, snags a TV drama series
The first time I saw Branden Miller as Joanne the Scammer online I was intrigued. The petite, tan-skinned person with hairy arms, a disheveled, layered wig and ice blue contacts was everywhere. I clicked a video. And another one. And another one. And another. I laughed until pain reverberated up my sides and then did […]
Lena Waithe set to join ‘Dear White People’ in Season 2
Emmy award-winning writer Lena Waithe will be joining Justin Simien’s Dear White People for Season 2 of the social commentary heavy series. Waithe will be taking on the role of P. Ninny which reunites her with Simien as she produced the movie on which the series is based. Waithe says of the character, “I’ve never […]
Learning to love myself as a Black queer man in a Black Greek Letter Organization
By George M. Johnson There is no such thing as Blackness that doesn’t encompass Queerness, despite the attempts from toxic masculinity and those willing to protect its image at all costs to have you believe otherwise. This cost is paid in the form of transgender people murdered, young boys killed by their fathers over their […]
From the Million Woman March to #Metoo: How movements created by and for Black women are appropriated
by Jacquelyn Iyamah In October of 1997, an estimated 750,000 Black women congregated on Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia for the Million Woman March. Spearheaded by Phile Chionsesu and Asia Coney, the march provided a forum for the issues that mainstream women’s rights movements often dismiss—the issues affecting Black women. Concerns about the abuses against […]
Texas woman attacks Demetria #Trafficbae Obilor, Black Twitter resoundingly champions the broadcast journalist
Jan Shedd, a white woman in Texas, likely learned a new phrase—“big mad”—as her name began to trend after she attacked a biracial Black female journalist on Facebook. Shedd was upset that Demetria Obilor does her job while having a curvy shape. Shedd recently posted a picture of the bubbly, heart-eye-emoji-deserving reporter, and in a […]
Study confirms why TV representation is failing, there aren’t enough Black writers in Hollywood
Color of Change recently conducted a study examining the writers rooms in Hollywood and it revealed that many major studios do not have any Black writers . Only 35% of writers rooms have at least one Black writer on staff, and within that 35% less than 5% of the writers in those rooms are Black. […]
White women hate losing to Black women
Kylie Jenner allegedly unfollowed Rihanna on Instagram when Fenty Beauty dropped, and the way I cackled left me aching and in tears. This was not long after I learned Maria Sharapova released her memoir, where she casts Serena Williams in the role of a jealous and begrudging contender. This vein of fragility is the modus operandi […]
I live in a sanctuary city, and it’s a safe haven for white liberal anti-Blackness
by Christina Bolden The term “sanctuary city” came to be during the 1980s protests against federal policies that denied asylum to refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala. In light of Donald Trump’s federal policies, which will deny immigrants refuge and the ability to live here safely, sanctuary cities are once again at the forefront of the […]
Cop could lose job after telling woman ‘We only kill Black people’
A Georgia cop was recorded making a tasteless joke about how police officers “only kill Black people” while trying to talk a woman out of her car, according to CNN. This is the United States in 2017.