There is a lot going on in this country right now. There are police battling protesters in St. Louis (the protests stemming from yet another cop not charged for killing a black man). There are protests for DACA and the protection of the Dreamers, people who were brought into America as children and have grown …
It’s oddly comforting to see the names “Tia Mowry,” “Jaleel White” and “Tim Reid” back in the TV news cycle. I’m going to check out their new show Me Myself and I and feel like it’s TGIF again. Here’s what’s going on around the internet: Tia Mowry & Tim Reid join CBS comedy, ‘Me, Myself & …
Gina Rodriguez is making moves and preparing to educate the viewing public on immigration rights in the process. According to Jezebel, the Jane the Virgin star has sold two shows with immigration as its focus. The first, Have Mercy, is based on a German series format and tells the story of an immigrant Latina doctor …
What is the only way for Jordan Peele to follow up from Get Out? To tell the true story of a black man who infiltrated the KKK. Shadow and Act has reported that Peele has partnered with Spike Lee to create the thriller Black Klansman. The film will focus on the true story of Ron …
What is really funny is that the first article for today was about the #ExpressiveAsian movement to illustrate the ridiculously racist idea some casting folks in Hollywood have against casting Asians (the belief that they aren’t “expressive”). As if to counter that racist idea, here’s talk about a rom-com film starring some very expressive Asian …
For Paste Magazine, Kenneth Lowe wrote a piece on whitewashing and lack of Asian visibility in Hollywood, “Bias does not come out with the whitewash.” The piece featured this anecdote from Nancy Wang Yuen, author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism. Nancy Wang Yuen points out in Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism, that actors of color …
This post is about Victoria and Abdul, the latest in a long line of “special person of color befriending or otherwise humanizing a cold white woman” films. From the outset, this, a film based on the biography by Shrabani Basu, looks like a Driving Miss Daisy version of a small moment of Queen Victoria’s life. …
The first images and trailer for Dee Rees’ next film, Mudbound have finally been released. I feel like this one could very well be a fantastic Oscar contender. The film is Rees’ follow-up from her first two films Pariah and Bessie. Mudbound had great success at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and when it launches …
Anime fans are going to have an interesting time with Jaden Smith’s latest project, Neo Yokio. The project itself is delightfully weird in that classic Jaden Smith/alternative black kid way—the show was created by Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, which is the first clue that this show is tailor-made for black alternakids—as a college student, I …
Are y’all ready for a new Powerpuff Girl? Big news coming out of Cartoon Network is that their popular characters, the Powerpuff Girls, will get a new sister, and she’ll be black. According to Geeks of Color, the new character, which sports blue hair, can be seen in the international marketing reel for Cartoon Network. …
