From an underwater world to Middle Earth to Galaxies far away, the notion that Black people shouldn’t exist in fictional… Read More
The CrimeDoor app presents itself as more than just fodder for our morbid obsession with true crime — and in… Read More
André Leon Talley serves as a reminder that fashion wouldn’t be what it is without the contributions of Black Southerners.… Read More
The anti-intellectual that advocates for free speech and dismisses the root purpose of terms like woke and cancel culture, has… Read More
Where Black TV used to only be a handful of places, now it's everywhere and harder than ever to keep… Read More
Virgil Abloh, who died at 41, will leave a legacy behind pushing forward the belief that accomplishing your wildest dreams… Read More
Rebecca Hall's directorial debut Passing is a story about race and identity that finds its own subject matter to be absurd.… Read More
With every piece of backlash, Dave Chappelle is willfully mythologizing himself as a “victim” of an amorphous queer conspiracy to… Read More
In a streaming and playlist first world, albums have become less of a critical component of success for the industry.… Read More
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The late Michael K. Williams brought the stories of fictional — and real — queer figures to life through some… Read More
Questlove's directorial debut, Summer of Soul, which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival, shows how Black music from across… Read More
Comedian Paul Mooney, who passed away at the age of 79, was a “race man” who had an unwavering devotion… Read More
Tyler Perry is a terror, whose productions aren’t good in the most acute sense. But when viewed through camp’s flamboyant… Read More
In Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Cyborg’s arc is the most fully realized in the story, and without it, the film would… Read More
In Shaka King's Judas and the Black Messiah, the Black Panthers are humanized, focusing on their work instead of white… Read More