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‘Fast Color’ was snubbed by Hollywood’s white male gatekeepers because it doesn’t fit their worldview
This essay contains spoilers for Fast Color by Melanie Ojwang Fast Color immediately stands out as different from the comic based blockbusters I’ve grown used to over the past decade. When it was first released, I rushed to see it, fearing that it wouldn’t be in theaters past opening weekend. It turns out that my […]
#OscarsSoWhite, Selma May Have Been Snubbed Over “I Can’t Breathe” Tees
An Academy member ranted over criticism that the Oscars snubbed Selma. Their reasoning sounds, well, racist. First, let me say that I’m tired of all of this talk about “snubs” — I thought for every one of [the snubs] there was a justifiable reason. What no one wants to say out loud is that Selma […]
Dear Black People: It’s Ok To Be Mad Selma Was Snubbed By The Academy
The Oscar nominations were announced this morning and the list of nominees is overwhelming white and male. Ava DuVernay, the director of Selma, was passed over for a Best Director nod. Over at Very Smart Brothas, Damon Young says that it’s okay for black people to be upset over the Oscar snub of Selma.
White ‘Think Like A Man Too’ actor doesn’t feel snubbed by Essence Magazine
Think Like A Man Too actor Gary Owen has responded to being excluded from an Essence magazine cover that featured all of the black male cast members.
Between Black artists and Black love
By Donnie Moreland It must’ve been 2015 when I first viewed Debbie Tucker Green’s Second Coming (2014). It’s a film which asks the question, what if the nativity story took place between two working class Black folks already raising a little boy in South London. It’s a mesmerizing dreamscape of rage and longing, orbited by […]
Quality, art, the culture of sameness, and white men’s egos
“Culture today is infecting everything with sameness. Film, radio, and magazines form a system. Each branch of culture is unanimous within itself and all are unanimous together.” —”The Culture Industry: Enlightenment As Mass Deception”, Dialectic of Enlightenment Stephen King recently tweeted, “I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to […]
Why the new trailer for Netflix’s ‘Raising Dion’ feels bittersweet
by Andrew Keahey Netflix recently released the trailer for Raising Dion, an upcoming original series produced by Michael B. Jordan about a single Black mother raising her super-powered son as the government attempts to take him and use his abilities for their own nefarious purposes—or as we know it, “standard government stuff.” Based on the […]
Spike Lee receives standing ovation for “BlacKkKlansman” in triumphant return to Cannes
Spike Lee made a triumphant return to Cannes after his infamous snubbing for the Palme d’Or in 1989 for his now classic film Do The Right Thing. The filmmaker receiving a thunderous round of applause after screening his newest film BlacKkKlansman, which reportedly lasted for around eight minutes. BlacKkKlansman is a retelling of a true story set in […]
The myth of “unintentional” or “implicit” racism
There were no windows in the high school classroom, only unnatural lights that left your head pounding by the time the hour was over. But on this day and many others like it, my head would be left even more tense and excruciating by a fellow student whose pale skin seemed to welcome the sunless […]
Academy Awards Highlight Black Hollywood
Many predicted that this year’s Academy Awards would go to great lengths to celebrate diversity after the #OscarsSoWhite controversy came to a head last year. Fortunately, this year saw a surplus of quality content starring Black actors and actresses for the Academy to choose from. As a result, Black Hollywood was celebrated in front of […]
Ava DuVernay Becomes First Woman Of Color To Direct A $100M Project
The amount of money a studio puts behind a project is often viewed as a major signifier of their faith in its potential. This potential is tied to multiple factors including the market it will be going into, the script, the cast and the director. For the first time ever, a woman of color will […]
We Must Offer Black Women The Same Protections We Offer White Women
By now, the world has heard at length about the gaffes of two very famous white women this week. Taylor Swift was exposed on Snapchat by Kim Kardashian and Kanye West for lying about approving Kanye’s lyrics in his song “Famous.” Melania Trump, the wife of the Republican nominee for president, apparently lifted part of […]