Tag: blacks

Steven Moffat Confirms He Tried to Cast a Black Doctor on ‘Doctor Who’

In case you missed the news, read at Vulture.com.

Moffat at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore

Moffat at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore

Malachi Kirby Talks About ROOTS’s Return for the Black Lives Matter Generation

Lots of great stuff in this piece…read on at The Daily Beast.

The Roots remake is showing on the History channel and stars Malachi Kirby as Kunta Kinte, Forest Whitaker, Laurence Fishburne, Anna Paquin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Matthew Goode, and Anika Noni Rose.

Malachi Koirby as Kuinta Kinte in the 2016 remake of the legendary miniseries Roots

Malachi Kirby as Kunta Kinte in the 2016 remake of the legendary miniseries Roots

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

Check it out now at Vulture!

Actor Echo Kellum

Actor Echo Kellum

Disney Studios Promotes Tendo Nagenda To EVP Production

Go to Deadline.com to read more about this Queen Of Katwe production exec.

He’ll also be heading A Wrinkle In Time with Ava DuVernay set to direct. AYYYYE!

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‘Mater Mea’ Website Releases Powerful Video About Mothers’ Fear For Their Black Children

Read the article at Buzzfeed.com.

Is Amazon Same-day Delivery Service Racist?

Read all about it at the Christian Science Monitor.

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It’s Ren Faire Season. And, Yes, There Were Black People In Renaissance Europe

Read at Black Nerd Problems.

Attributed to Antoine Pesne (1683 - 1757): Portrait of a black page with a white parrot (via the People of Color in European Art History Tumblr page)

Attributed to Antoine Pesne (1683 – 1757): Portrait of a black page with a white parrot (via the People of Color in European Art History Tumblr page)

‘The Bell Curve,’ Still Incendiary: Protesters Will Greet A Co-author When He Speaks At Virginia Tech

Go to Inside Higher Ed to read.

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Race Riot in the Time Stream: Going ‘Black in Time’

Click here to read Grady Hendrix’s humorous review at Tor.com.

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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