WATCH: Clips from Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Play, “Choir Boy”
Here are exclusive clips from Academy Award Winning “Moonlight” screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Broadway play, “Choir Boy.”
Lil Nas X Gets the Square
Billboard’s Country chart police have come under scrutiny for removing Lil Nas X’s country trap song Old Town Road from the Billboard Country charts. Their reason; “…upon further review, it was determined that ‘Old Town Road’ by Lil Nas X does not currently merit inclusion…
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Racial Ambiguity and Transcendence
The non-controversy / controversy concerning The Rock’s racial identity played out in interesting fashion via Twitter and Instagram. It started with The Rock’s old job and his claim to fame WWE. Regardless what my brother and I thought when we were young, wrestling is scripted…
Netflix’s Love Death & Robots
I don’t think animation gets the respect it deserves. Case in point; many social media feeds and websites that cater to people of color highlighted all the Black people that were nominated and won Oscars in their respected categories but didn’t even mention Spider-Man Into…
#SurvivingCardiB
Let’s take a trip to ‘What-If Imagination Land’. What if Meek Mill revealed in an interview that when he was struggling to break into the music industry he sold drugs to pay for expensive studio costs? Duh…no shocking revelations there right? What if he stated…
Quick Spoiler Free Thoughts On Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’
Us is a comedic-suspenseful-horror film adding to a body of work that could be the beginning of Jordan Peele’s reign as ‘Master of Horror’. Following up the racially charged hit Get Out, Us feels a bit more expansive and if you’ve seen the trailers you already know…
That Time Orson Welles Got Drunk Filming a Commercial
This addition of Throwback Thursday features Orson Welles. Welles is best known for his legendary career (in front of / behind the camera) in film, theater, television and in radio. From his 1938 broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” to what many consider one…
Why I’m Not Fucking With Amanda Seales Any More
You will see many headlines on blogs and on Youtube calling Amanda Seales a liar due to the allegations she made against former NFL player now neurosurgeon Myron Rolle. Rolle’s inspirational journey as NFL player to medical students has been highlighted in many news outlets over…
The Stigma Attached To Sexual Fluid Male Porn Actors
We are familiar or have heard the term “gay for pay.” This is when straight male porn actors are paid to perform in scenes with another male. The other male could be straight or self-identified as gay. In keeping with the fluidity of sexuality there…
Throwback Thursday – Revisiting The Short Film ‘Slow’
For Throwback Thursday we revisit one of our first short films we featured on the site (over 7 years ago) which happens to also be one of our favorites exploring the act of ‘hooking-up’. I remember when I first watched the short and the feeling…
That Time Shannon Sharpe Shut Jenny Taft Down On Her Double Standards
Last year video was released of Kansas City Chief’s Kareem Hunt assaulting a white woman. While under the influence Hunt can be seen in the footage (below) getting into a verbal altercation with the women (whom nobody knew) while she was outside of his and…
Attempting to Decipher J Cole’s Middle Child Video
While 21 Savage’s A Lot video is my favorite rap video so far this year, J. Cole’s Middle Child is my favorite rap single this year. So of course I was hotly anticipating his video release for the track. Coming off the heels of momentous hip…
Image Comics Presents ‘Excellence’
While I haven’t actually purchased comics in a 4 years, Image comics will always hold a special place for me due to it being the home of my favorite character ‘Spawn’. Before Black Panther gained mainstream name recognition, Black protagonist Al Simmons (Spawn) was the…
Damned If You Blue, Damned If You Don’t
When Disney first dropped their live action adaptation of Aladdin featuring Will Smith as ‘Genie’, folk were upset because he was not blue. Being that the animated version included a blue genie voiced by Robin Williams…folk don’t like change or studios fucking up their nostalgia….
MA – Starring Octavia Spencer
Don’t you hate it when you feel a trailer gives away the whole dame movie? I feel like the trailer for ‘MA’ does just that. From what I can tell the film is a thriller set in a small town. It features MA who appears…
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