Category: News

News about current and upcoming genre media projects that include people of color. Info about historical projects, as well.

AMC & Korea’s DramaFever to launch horror streaming site

It’s still unclear when exactly Shudder.tv is going to launch

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Title & Casting Details for Cancelled Ghostbusters 3 Project

Aziz Ansari was pegged for minor role.

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“Sleepy Hollow’s” Nicholas Gonzalez Joins “The Flash”

Gonzalez to play Dante, Cisco Ramon’s older brother

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Viola Davis bags Amanda Waller role in ‘Suicide Squad’

DC Comics villain and Prison Warden

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“We Need Diverse Books” Returns to BookCon for an SFF Panel!

Nnedi Okorafor and Daniel José Older will be joining other panelists to talk about diversity in genre fiction.

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Cover of “Who Fears Death” by Nnedi Okorafor

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Cover of “Shadowshaper” by Daniel José Older

How to Live on Other Planets

1st sci-fi anthology to focus exclusively on immigrant experience

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In POCs and Tech News, Dr. Dre Wins Big with Beats

Selling Beats to Apple made Dr. Dre 2014’s highest-paid musician.

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From left: Jimmy Iovine, Tim Cook, Dr. Dre, and Eddy Cue
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FX orders Donald Glover’s rap comedy pilot “Atlanta”

Will write, produce and star in the pilot

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KOICHI KAWAKITA: The Man Who Redefined Godzilla for the 1990s

Rest in Peace, Koichi Kawakita, “Godzilla” movies’ visual effects director…

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Koichi Kawakita, December 5, 1942 – December 5, 2014

Ghostface Killah’s 36 Seasons As a Comic

Ghostface Killah has long explicitly aligned himself with the world of comics & superheroes

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