Category: News

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

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Fire Destroys Giant King Kong Statue In Ho Chi Minh City

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Click here to go to Deadline.com.

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Laverne Cox To Star In ABC Pilot ‘The Trustee’ Produced By Elizabeth Banks

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Read at Deadline.com.

Also involved in the project? Smurfs writers Jay Scherick and David Ronn…

Laverne Cox as Sophia Burset in Orange is the New Black

Articles, News

Twitter hands brief time-out to former KKK leader David Duke

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LINK: Former imperial wizard in the white supremacist group returns to the social network

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The Wire’s Michael K. Williams Joins the Han Solo Movie to Make It Even More Badass

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Read all about it at io9.com.

Williams at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012

Williams at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2012 – Photo credit: David Shankbone

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After 130 Years, Harvard Law Review Elects a Black Woman President

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ImeIme Umana, 24, the daughter of Nigerian immigrants

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#Oscars: State Dept tweets/deletes congrats to Iran’s Asghar Farhadi

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LINK: Director Skipped Ceremony To Protest 45’s Muslim Travel Ban

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‘Get Out’s’ Daniel Kaluuya Joins Steve McQueen’s ‘Widows’

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Read all about it at Comingsoon.net.

Viola Davis and Michelle Rodriguez are also slated for Widows.

Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out (2017)

Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out (2017)

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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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Gwendolyn Brooks’ Trailblazing Vintage Poems for Kids #BlackHistoryMonth

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LINK: Celebrating Diversity and the Universal Spirit of Childhood

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News, Videos

Stephen King and J.J. Abrams Team Up for ‘Castle Rock’ Series

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Click here to go to Creaters.co.