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      Vilissa Thompson, LMSW Originally posted on Ramp Your Voice! Luke Cage was one of Netflix’s original series I had waited all summer to watch.  Being a blerd and someone who enjoys comics, I was proudly a part of the #Cagetember fandom seen on Twitter.  What excited me was not just Luke’s amazing…

Everyone’s been talking about police brutality, from Colin Kaepernick to movie stars to Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. Now, you can add a Los Angeles acting company to the list. Black Magic Live, a production company monthly sketch show in Los Angeles, recently created a video to call out police acting outside of the law….

I love cartoons and I’m sure you love cartoons. But despite the plethora of amazing cartoons out there, there still isn’t enough diversity in the genre. The Weeklings, though, plans on changing that. The Weeklings is an animated series featuring characters based on the days of the week. “Set in a surreal world in which anything…

While we wait to see if FX’s Tyrant will be picked up by another network, there’s been some interesting news from Tyrant‘s EP Howard Gordon. Apparently, he also felt the first season left a lot to be desired. Related: On “Tyrant”: Its Cancellation and Its Importance in Pop Culture In a Sept. 7 interview with Deadline, Gordon gave…

Hernan “Shades” Alvarez and City Councilwoman Mariah Dillard. On paper, these two people shouldn’t even be in the same stratosphere of influence. But in reality, these two go together like peanut butter and chocolate. Perhaps you’ve seen the internet become besides themselves with this new power couple, otherwise known as #ShadyMariah. Heck, even Shades himself,…

Marvel’s Luke Cage is undoubtedly the best thing Marvel’s created. You might think I’m being facetious, but having seen my share of Marvel properties, some of which I wish I’d never seen—I could have done without seeing Ant-Man, but I only went for the sake of my younger brother—Marvel’s Luke Cage hits all the marks I wish the…

It’s time. It’s finally time to go over my AncestryDNA results! A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my reasons for taking the test in the first place. Now, we are here, over the rainbow, in a point in time where I now what what makes me me! Let’s get into the percentages. Despite…

There is a reason RuPaul won his well-deserved Emmy for RuPaul’s Drag Race. Episode 5 of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 2 is, hands down, the best episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race ever. I’m serious. The best episode of all time for this franchise. Everything that went down in this episode was pitch perfect. You couldn’t have asked for a…

We just got finished praising Melissa Villaseñor for breaking the glass ceiling for Latinas on Saturday Night Live, and not nearly a week later, we’re already going onto the next with Villaseñor in our rear-view mirrors because of some tweets she made on her now-private Twitter page. I had just written about Villaseñor exactly eight days ago as of the time…

One of the most interesting things to come out of the three-season run of Tyrant was the handling of the character of Bassam. Bassam has been a character that has been an interesting component of my TV criticism of Tyrant. In fact, calling him “interesting” is an understatement and a euphemism. I’ll quote what I wrote about…