Month: May 2016

Articles, News

Non-Fiction Comics Anthology Examines Contemporary India

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LINK: Social Realism Illuminates “First Hand, Vol 1”

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Articles, Videos

Rare ‘Revenge of the Jedi’ Trailer Unearthed After More Than 30 Years

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This is wild. Go to Mentalfloss.com to check it out.

News

CANADA: Indigenous & #BlackLivesMatter Activists Unite

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LINK: Addressing state violence and neglect, media coverage

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Articles

‘Fast & Furious 8’ Producer Talks Potential Dwayne Johnson Spinoff

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Read all about it at Screenrant.com.

Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne Johnson

Articles

Vanity Fair Profiles Ruth Negga As Preacher’s Tulip O’Hare

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LINK: Taking the character way beyond comic canon

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Articles, News

(H)afrocentric Wins 2016 Glyph Award

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Black Women in Comics: via @blackvoices

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Articles

Big Breaking Halloween Movie News from John Carpenter and Blumhouse

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Dreadcentral.com has the details.

(See below) Syrian-American Malek Akkad is best known for an associate producer on Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers and Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later, co-producer for Halloween: Resurrection, and producer for Halloween (2007), Halloween II (2009) and Halloween III (3D). His father Moustapha produced the original series of Halloween films.

L-R: Zanne Devine, Malek Akkad, John Carpenter, Jason Blum, David Thwaites

L-R: Zanne Devine, Malek Akkad, John Carpenter, Jason Blum, David Thwaites

Articles

African Language Sci-Fi: Masimba Musodza’s “Muna Hacha Maive Nei?” Reissued

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LINK: Zimbabwean novel may be the first speculative fiction book written in Shona

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Articles

LeVar Burton on ‘Roots’ Remake: ‘I Wanted to Share With This New Generation the Truth’

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LeVar. Ayyyye!

LeVar Burton at the Disney Social Media Conference in 2014. Photo Credit: Josh Hallett

LeVar Burton at the Disney Social Media Conference in 2014. Photo Credit: Josh Hallett

Articles

ARROW’s Echo Kellum on Becoming Mr. Terrific, Snapchat, and the ‘Revenge of the Black Nerd’ Lifestyle

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Check it out now at Vulture!

Actor Echo Kellum

Actor Echo Kellum