Category: Articles

Leslie Jones’s Role in Ghostbusters Originally Written for Melissa McCarthy

Read all about it at The Mary Sue.

Does it make a difference? Tell us what you think!

Here’s Leslie doin’ her thing though.

#LukeCage will go beyond Hell’s Kitchen says Marvel’s .@JoeQuesada

LINK: “It’ll be a different side of Manhattan,” Quesada told Comic Book Resources.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Early Look at Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ #1!

LINK: The suspense is killing folks.

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New ‘Ghostbusters’ Trailer Nods To Controversy Over Race And Gender

Read at The Guardian.

Ok, so that’s a “nod.” But, when a person watches the white characters praise each other for their scientific brilliance and the only black one in the bunch works for public transit…it feels like crap. Frankly, this stuff is reaching the point of absurdity.

Karyn Kusama and Emotionally Sophisticated Horror

LINK: Director of ‘Aeon Flux’,’Jennifer’s Body’ and ‘The Invitation’

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Remembering Unsung Science Fiction Hero & Genius Grant Winner Octavia Butler

Read about it at the Southern California Public Radio website.

Below: Devil Girl From Mars : the movie that sparked Butler’s first science fiction story

Writers Talk Afrofuturism, Historical Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

LINK: BRINGING THE FUTURE TO THE NOW

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Cheryl Contee Writes: ‘What I’ve Learned Working As A Black Person In Silicon Valley’

Read her blog at The Huffington Post.

Cheryl Contee - Photo by Brian Solis

Cheryl Contee – Photo by Brian Solis

Wired.com: “Every Galaxy Needs More Than Three People of Color”

Read at Wired.com.

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Juan Carlos Fresnadillo to direct Spielberg-produced “Haunted”

LINK: It’s the dude who did “28 Weeks Later”.

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