Month: February 2017

Articles

Check out Black Girl Nerds’s #BGNOscarWatchParty Guide!

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Check it out at Black Girl Nerds.

Fancy drink recipes included…..

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Articles, News

CW’S Black Lightning Casts Cress Williams

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LINK: Williams has just been cast in the title role

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Articles, News

New Animated Series Explores Cosmic Origins of Sun Ra and Afrofuturism #BlackHistoryMonth

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LINK: From the team that brought you Spotify’s “Drawn & Recorded” series

Articles

How This Son of Migrant Farm Workers Became an Astronaut

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Read about it at Money.CNN.com.

U.S. Astronaut Jose Hernandez

U.S. Astronaut Jose Hernandez

Articles

Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya on How Racism Feels Like Living in a Horror Film

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Read about it at Vulture.com.

British actor Daniel Kaluuya stars as Chris Washington in Get Out.

British actor Daniel Kaluuya stars as Chris Washington in Get Out.

Articles, News

Are Instagram-loving Foodies Perpetuating Racist Stereotypes?

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LINK: Food fascism photos?

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News

Hayao Miyazaki’s Retirement Is Officially Over

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LINK: In 2013, Miyazaki retired saying, “This time is for real.”

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Articles, Videos

A Haitian Machete Martial Arts Master Shares His Secrets

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Read all about it at Neatorama.

The real life Machete….

Articles

Henrietta Lacks’s Family Wants Compensation For Her Cells #BlackHistoryMonth

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Click here to read at The Washington Post.

Henrietta Lacks circa 1945–1951

This 1940s photo made available by the family shows Henrietta Lacks. In 1951, a doctor in Baltimore removed cancerous cells from Lacks without her knowledge or consent. Source: Wikipedia

Articles, News

“Get Out” & “The Purge”: Black Men in the America Tradition of Horror

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