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Hollywood’s Book Adaptation Boom Has a Black Author ProblemCapitalBNews.org
Tyra Banks’ Netflix Lawsuit Has a Point Bloomberg
Funny Side Up The Hollywood Reporter
How World War II Inspired ‘Lord of the Flies’ History.com
So, We’re Not Allowed to Criticize the Michael Jackson Biopic? Bloomberg
Graffiti's Origins and Radical Role Across Millennia Bloomberg
Zendaya’s Race Isn’t a Factor in ‘The Drama.’ That’s the Problem Bloomberg
The Moonwalk’s Roots in Black Artistic Resistance History.com
Chef JJ Johnson Saw Hungry New Yorkers Passing His Restaurant. So He Fed Them TIME
'Are We Creating Critical Thinkers?' Historians Say Smithsonian Review Reflects Today's Anti-Intellectualism Contrabandcamp.com
MTV’s Ananda Lewis Brought Journalism to a New Generation Bloomberg
Mara Brock Akil Grew Up With Judy Blume’s Very White Characters. In Forever, She Made Them Black Refinery29
‘Magazine Dreams’: Should Jonathan Majors’ Movie Have Been Buried for Good? The Daily Beast
What Apple Cider Vinegar Misses When It Comes to the World of Health Influencers Time
Trump's Edict of Diversity in the Arts Hits Differently for Black Organizations ContrabandCamp.com
The 1 Person Not Hyped About This Weekend's Super Bowl Halftime Show HuffPost.com
Sundance, 'The Brutalist' And The Rollback Of AI Resistance HuffPost.com
The Truth About Black Responsibility In Hollywood HuffPost.com
When The Celebrity Is Too Big For The Performance HuffPost.com
The Future Of 'Sesame Street' Hangs In The Balance. Its Core Audience Might Not Care. HuffPost.com
Celebrity PR Is Not Looking Great In The Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni Case HuffPost.com
A Tale Of 2 Black Films HuffPost.com
'Wicked' Marketing Has Felt Eternal. It Also Raises Uncomfortable Questions. HuffPost.com
The Best Broadway Shows of 2024 HuffPost.com
The Reckoning And Short-Lived Glory Of The '90s Black Horror Movie HuffPost.com
What We Lose With The End Of 'Somebody Somewhere' HuffPost.com
A New Film Further Incriminates Sean Combs. It Also Paints A Complicated Portrait Of Shyne. HuffPost.com
When Sean Combs' Case Demanded A Nuanced Report, Cheyenne Roundtree Stepped Up HuffPost.com
BET+ Was A Streaming Underdog. Diarra Kilpatrick Changed That. HuffPost.com
The Menendez Brothers, Privilege, And The Issue With True Crime And Celebrity Advocacy HuffPost.com
Understanding Who Is An Enabler In The Sean Combs Case — And Who Is Not HuffPost.com
Pharrell Williams Deserves A Nuanced Film About Him. 'Piece By Piece' Isn't It. HuffPost.com
A Movie About The Things We Don't Talk About In The Black Community HuffPost.com
Maybe No One Wants To See 'The Apprentice,' Actually HuffPost.com
'The Brother From Another Planet,' Kamala Harris And The Fallacy Of Post-Racialism HuffPost.com
‘What Do We Do With An Icon?’ HuffPost.com
'Dirty Pop: Boy Band Scam' Awkwardly Curates The Facts HuffPost.com
'MaXXXine' Is Cheap-Chic Horror At Its Finest HuffPost.com
Tina Mabry Longs For The '90s Black Film Era. She Hopes to Reignite It With Her New Movie. HuffPost.com
'Brat Pack,' 'Nepo Baby' And How Celebs Continue To Miss The Point Of Media Labels HuffPost.com
Before Spotify And Netflix, A Black Man Was The King Of Access. He Went To Federal Prison. HuffPost.com
'Black Barbie' Proves That Representation Is Relative — And Sometimes Unproductive HuffPost.com
Investigation Discovery Has Helped Usher In A Questionable New Era Of Tabloid TV HuffPost.com
'The Big Cigar' Is Captivating — But Struggles To Reconcile Man And Legend HuffPost.com
Shannyn Sossamon Likes To Disappear HuffPost.com
'Civil War' Isn't Worth The Discourse Huffpost.com
'Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead' Didn't Need A Remake — With Black People HuffPost.com
What 'Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes' Understands About White Womanhood HuffPost.com
What 'Ripley' Understands About Infiltrating The Rich HuffPost.com
We've Finally Got A New Brown Action Star In Hollywood HuffPost.com
'Shirley' Underscores The Problem With The Great Black Historical Figure Trope HuffPost.com
'Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV' Covers A Lot. And It's Still Not Enough. HuffPost.com
Freaknik And The Question Of Black Female Sexual Liberation In The '90s HuffPost.com
'Boarders' Has The Potential To Become Tubi's First Original Hit Series — If People Watch It HuffPost.com
Recent Parental Guidance Suggestions Seem Hopeless In A World With Book Bans HuffPost.com
Interrogating The Black Female Image In AI HuffPost.com
There Is No Shortage Of Great Female-Directed Films HuffPost.com
Issa López Went To A Dark Place To Helm 'True Detective' — With The Support Of Native People HuffPost.com
18 Movies We're Looking Forward To In 2024 HuffPost.com
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The Compromises Of 'The Color Purple' HuffPost.com
The Best TV Of 2023 HuffPost.com
The Best Broadway Shows Of 2023 HuffPost.com
The Best Films Of 2023 HuffPost.com
'Poor Things' And The Odyssey Of A So-Called 'Difficult' Woman HuffPost.com
'Origin' Is Barely A Movie HuffPost.com
'Saltburn' Isn't An Eat-The-Rich Movie. It's Also Not Great. HuffPost.com
'May December' Deftly Portrays The Weaponization Of White Female Sexuality HuffPost.com
'Thanksgiving' Helps Bring The Jump Scare Back To The Box Office HuffPost.com
We Didn't Need The Evil White Guy Origin Story For 'Hunger Games' HuffPost.com
The Rules Of Redemption Apply Differently To White People Than Everyone Else HuffPost.com
People Deserve Space To Evolve — But Cancel Culture Doesn't Allow For It HuffPost.com
The Art Versus The Artist Is A Personal Choice — And It’s Worth Reexamining HuffPost.com
'What Happens Later' Is A Sad Little Movie — And Not The Good Kind HuffPost.com
Where We Lost The Thread On Cancel Culture HuffPost.com
In 1990, Milli Vanilli Was Canceled — And No One Cared About The Whole Truth HuffPost.com
'The Creator' Is The Pro-AI Movie We Don’t Need Right Now HuffPost.com
Horror Comes For The Opioid Empire — But Does Little Else HuffPost.com
These New Films About Iconic Black Models Fight For Their Relevance HuffPost.com
'Woman Of The Hour' Actually Does Dramatize Violence — But That's Not Its Problem HuffPost.com
9 Of The Best Movies At The Toronto International Film Festival HuffPost.com
Issues Of Race At The Core Of 'American Fiction' Are Significant. The Film Is Not. HuffPost.com
‘The Other Black Girl’ Has Its Flaws — But It Does Fix 1 Thing From The Novel HuffPost.com
'We Grown Now' Shows The Humanity Of The Cabrini-Green Projects — And Black Wonder HuffPost.com
Speculative Horror Series 'The Changeling' Challenges You In The Best Way HuffPost.com
'Barbie' Shows The Limitations Of Feminism — And The Brand-Inspired Movie HuffPost.com
The Initial NC-17 Rating For ‘Passages’ Highlights A Rigid And Queerphobic Standard HuffPost.com
'Justified: City Primeval' Puts Its White Marshal In Detroit — And Rightfully Challenges Him HuffPost.com
A Korean American Filmmaker Grapples With Anti-Blackness In Her Community HuffPost.com
'Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One' Treats AI As The Threat That It Is HuffPost.com
How Re-releasing Classic Movies Fits Into The Current Remake Frenzy HuffPost.com
‘I'm A Virgo’ Has A Lot Of Big Ideas — But Only Some Of Them Work HuffPost.com
'The Other Two' Was Too Good To Last HuffPost.com
'Black Mirror' Has Never Been About Bad Tech — It's About Us HuffPost.com
'Some Like It Hot' Was Amber Ruffin's Chance To Bridge The Generation Gap HuffPost.com
The Standouts At This Year's Tribeca Film Festival Were TV Shows, Actually HuffPost.com
'The Little Mermaid' Doesn't Make Its Point HuffPost.com
'The Other Two' Shows Life On The Other Side Of Standom HuffPost.com
'You Hurt My Feelings' Challenges What You Can And Can't Say In A Marriage HuffPost.com
At Its Height In The '90s, 'Jerry Springer' Exploited Black, Trans And Poor Experiences HuffPost.com
In 1993, Tupac Assaulted Allen Hughes. ‘Dear Mama’ Provides The Director Some Catharsis. HuffPost.com
The Novel ‘Saint X’ Was Hailed For Its Social Commentary. A New Hulu Series Lets It Down. HuffPost.com
With 'Beau Is Afraid,' Director Ari Aster Has The Same Problem As Jordan Peele HuffPost.com
Ben Affleck Gambles With An Air Jordan Movie That's Not About The Basketball Star HuffPost.com
'Sick Of Myself' Bitingly (And Accurately) Portrays Our Need For Social Validation HuffPost.com
In 1997, 'Scream 2' Was Poised To Become Elise Neal's Calling Card. That Didn't Happen. HuffPost.com
The Problem With 'Yellowjackets' Is That It Needs More Cannibalism HuffPost.com
'Creed III' Explores Complex Black Masculinity — And Makes Room For Women HuffPost.com
Nothing In 'Knock At The Cabin' Matches Any Actual Human Response HuffPost.com
Ellen Barkin Worked On A Number Of Toxic Sets. Then Came 'Poker Face.' HuffPost.com
What 'Magic Mike's Last Dance' Understands About The Erotic Fantasy HuffPost.com
Native Femicide Is A Prevalent Truth, And 2 Sundance Premieres Offer A Human Look At It HuffPost.com
With 'Freeridge,' Keyla Monterroso Mejia Found A Role That She Was Born To Play HuffPost.com
The Best Movies At The 2023 Sundance Film Festival HuffPost.com
New Documentaries On Nikki Giovanni And Judy Blume Prove That Good Art Is Timeless HuffPost.com
Sundance Goes Hard For Celebrity Documentaries This Year — With Mixed Results HuffPost.com
Hollywood Often Stereotypes Sex Workers. Two New Films Portray Them In Their Own Words. HuffPost.com
The Best Broadway Shows of 2022 HuffPost.com
'Velma' Is A Smart, Pithy 'Scooby-Doo' Update — Except For One Thing HuffPost.com
In The '90s, A Black Psychic Friend Fooled White America. Then They Were Pissed. HuffPost.com
The Best Movies Of 2022 HuffPost.com
'Little America' Continues to Expand The Immigrant Narrative On TV HuffPost.com
'The Whale' Is As Unpleasant To Watch As It Is Remarkable HuffPost.com
'Welcome To Chippendales' Is A Disturbing Story Of Sex, Race And The American Dream HuffPost.com
The Best TV Shows Of 2022 HuffPost.com
In 1992, Sophie B. Hawkins Gave Us A Queer Pop Hit. Then Came The Backlash. HuffPost.com
As Moving As 'Wakanda Forever' Is, It Also Suffers From Clunky Storytelling HuffPost.com
'The L Word: Generation Q' Bridges The Gap Between Millennials And Gen X HuffPost.com
Bokeem Woodbine Is One Of The Most Underrated Actors Of His Generation HuffPost.com
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