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Hugh Hefner, the founder of the long-running Playboy Magazine empire, has died at age 91. I haz a sad. First of all, before anyone decides to come for me for saying I’m a little bummed, YES, I know that Playboy is based on a sexist and, frankly, racially-biased interpretation of feminine beauty–regardless of Hefner wanting to appeal…

As I’ve stated in my SlashFilm review, I’ve always been a Star Trek fan ever since I watched Star Trek: The Next Generation with my dad about 20 years ago. But while Jean-Luc Picard will always be my favorite Star Trek captain ever (who can say no to Patrick Stewart and the way he commanded with calm authority?), Picard…

I have several things I’d like to spout about when it comes to CBS’ Star Trek: Discovery. In fact, I’ve already spouted some of my opinions over at SlashFilm. But what I’m focusing on right now is a section from my review in which I tackle the death of a major character. From this point on, there…

As I wrote earlier, Brown Girl Begins, inspired by the book Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson, will make its world premiere at the UrbanWorld Film Festival in New York Friday. For fans of the afrofuturist movement, this is the kind of film that’s been sorely needed; it combines classic fantasy and post-apocalyptic elements, as well as…

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…

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…

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….

There’s tons of stuff going on in the media including the continued fallout L’Oréal is facing for firing black trans model/activist Munroe Bergdorf for her comments about systemic racism in relation to the violence in Charlottesville. Here’s what’s happening out there: What Munroe Bergdorf meant when she said all white people are racist|Quartz 19-Year-Old Haitian…