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Native American Actors, Cultural Consultant, Walk Off Adam Sandler's "Ridiculous Six" Set

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Adam Sandler is in hot water right now, and hopefully, this particular issue will put the lack of proper representation for Native Americans in the spotlight. 

Casting News: Nat Turner Movie in the Works, "Suicide Squad" Update, New Projects from Baz Luhrmann and Spike Lee, Hawkgirl cast

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There’s quite a bit of casting news from this and last week. Here we go. 

"Fresh Off the Boat": Why I Understand Eddie Huang's Angst

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Author’s note: I discuss Bill Cosby’s characters in I, Spy and The Cosby Show in this article. Please note that me discussing the characters is not an endorsement of Bill Cosby himself. In light of the sexual assault and rape accusations against him, I can’t support him. Now that these allegations have come out, one…

"Fresh Off the Boat" recap: "Blind Spot"

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This week’s was a funny and fascinating episode of Fresh Off the Boat. Funny in that it tackled same-sex relationships and attraction in an irreverent way. Fascinating in that it had an opportunity to look at intra-racial marginalization but failed to deliver.

Casting News: Movies, TV, and First Look Deals

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I got off my schedule with my Casting News posts! The last few weekends have been too busy for comfort. So I have a lot of old posts to go through, but I’m going to do it. Let’s stop the chatter and get to the casting news.  (Since there are 20 items, I’m only spending…

Casting News: More POCs Coming to TV, a Bruce Lee biopic in the Works

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The title says it all. A lot of people are in a lot of things now that Hollywood has declared diversity the New Best Thing. Because life wasn’t diverse before, apparently. Let’s just get into who’s going to be seen in what and what we can expect from that Bruce Lee biopic.

"Empire" recap: "The Lyon's Roar"

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Lucious Lyon is a big hypocrite. I think what I’m writing has been painfully obvious from the beginning of Empire, but this episode, “The Lyon’s Roar,” clearly shows in stark detail how much of a hypocrite Lucious is. He tells Jamal to sing his truth, and then gets mad when that truth isn’t what he wants…

TV Review: "The Slap"

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Synopsis (NBC): “The Slap” is an eight-episode miniseries based on the book by Christos Tsiolkas and Australian television series (“The Slap”) produced by Matchbox Pictures.  

Twitter Users Create #NativeLivesMatter In Response to Killing of Unarmed Native American Men

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We’ve seen #BlackLivesMatter and now #MuslimLivesMatter, but there’s yet another hashtag bringing awareness to marginalized people who are constantly subjected to unwarranted violence, Native Americans. The hashtag #NativeLivesMatter brings to light the sheer volume of Native deaths at the hands of police that occurred last year and years prior.

MOC Monday: Orlando Jones

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Orlando Jones has the honored position of being the MOC Monday man of the day! The accolade couldn’t come at a better time, since it would seem that Jones’ Sleepy Hollow character, Frank Irving, is back from the dead and will (hopefully) be back on Team Witness! In any event, we can see Jones use his dramatic…