When her new BET late-night talk show has its premiere on Thursday, Robin Thede said it will have many components that are staples of the format, including topical jokes about politics and popular culture, comedy sketches and musical performances.
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Watch: An all-black musical gave Dorothy Dandridge a groundbreaking role in Hollywood history | Timeline
It was a crucial juncture in her career, a career during which she’d endured countless humiliations…
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Forgotten Black Women of Early Hollywood Take Center Stage at CAAM
Hollywood has long had a problem with representation and diversity, especially concerning anyone female and nonwhite.
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Why Black Panther’s Sister in ‘Infinity War’ is a Big Deal | Inverse
The Marvel Cinematic Universe will have its biggest on-screen gathering yet in Avengers: Infinity War, but the party is only getting bigger.
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Quest review – black lives in the age of Obama | Quest
The power of a documentary tracing the fortunes of an African American family over eight years is all in the tender details.
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Detroit and Filmmaker Janicza Bravo | Slate
The director talks about her “weird” new movie Lemon, directing Atlanta’s “Juneteenth” episode, and challenging what it means to be a black female filmmaker.
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Ava DuVernay Is Developing Octavia Butler’s ‘Dawn’ Into a Television Series | OkayAfrica
With HBOs recent announcement of the controversial upcoming drama, Confederate, and Will Packer‘s upcoming Amazon series, Black America, there’s no doubt that the genre of speculative fiction is experiencing a major resurgence.
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The Samuel L. Jackson Method | The New York Times
He builds downtime into a schedule of near-constant work. Call his agent if you have a problem with that.
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Black America: Amazon alt-history series to depict a post-reparations US | The Guardian
In contrast to HBO’s controversial Confederate, this drama will imagine a timeline in which black Americans inhabit a sovereign country.
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Review: In ‘Detroit,’ Black Lives Caught in a Prehistory of the Alt-Right | The New York Times
Racial slurs fly fast and furious in Kathryn Bigelow’s “Detroit,” but the most troubling and divisive words uttered onscreen are variations on the simple pronouns “they” and “them.”
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