Erika Alexander on ‘Invasion’ Season 3, Representation, and Telling the Truth

September 18, 2025September 18, 2025 Ainsley 'LadyL' Landry

Apple TV+’s Invasion is back for its third season, raising the stakes and exploring the power of truth in the face of fear. In this exclusive interview, actress and activist Erika Alexander dives deep into her role as Marilyn Tanner, the passionate leader of Infinitas, a group fighting to expose the truth about the alien invasion and challenge the narratives controlled by the powers that be.

Fandom, Hard N.O.C. Life

Hard NOC Life 348: Vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz

October 28, 2024 Hard NOC Media

On Hard NOC Life, Dominic and Keith chat about what it will take to help elect the first Black Asian Woman President.

News, Star Trek1 Comment

Crooked Media Teams with ‘Star Trek’ to Boldly Go to the Polls and Elect Kamala Harris

September 26, 2024September 28, 2024 The Nerds of Color

On October 2, podcast host and Survivor outcast, Jon Lovett will be hosting a Star Trek-studded benefit for the Harris-Walz campaign. Proceeds from tickets for the live-stream and in-person event will go to Vote Save America in support of the highest-impact down-ballot races, as well as state-level grassroots organizations and voter protection efforts across the country.

Art, Comics1 Comment

‘La Borinqueña’ Tackles Climate Change

February 9, 2022 The Nerds of Color

In 2016, Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist and philanthropist Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez created La Borinqueña to drive conversations around the social, economic, and environmental crises affecting Puerto Rico. As a direct response to Hurricane Maria, he created our La Borinqueña Grants Program which has awarded $165,000 in grants to non-profit organizations across Puerto Rico.

Horror, Movies, Streaming

‘Madres’ Star Ariana Guerra on How Film Can Tell Stories to Inspire Change

October 20, 2021October 20, 2021 Bray Lawrence

Madres is a bit of an enigma as a film. Billed as a horror movie about a Mexican American couple in 1970 who move to California for better opportunities as the due date for their first born approaches, the film takes inspiration from a very real historical tragedy. In the years post WWII, California farm workers were subjected to hazardous working conditions which poisoned them with the deadly pesticides that were being sprayed over the crops. Madres aims to bring awareness to a forgotten disaster and Ariana Guerra wanted to make sure she was apart of this important story when she accepted the role of the film’s protagonist, Diana.

Movies, Reviews

‘Unapologetic’ is an Unflinching Exploration of Activism

August 20, 2021August 20, 2021 Bray Lawrence

“What is this helping?” is one of the first sentences uttered by a white restaurant patron unsettled in Unapologetic’s first scene, where protestors express the reality of the recent deaths of Black residents in their community to unsuspecting people eating brunch at restaurants. The scene perfectly encompasses the themes and motives of this documentary: a large and triumphant call to arms to make a more honest and equal world while people sit quietly trying to ignore not only the performance, but the actual knowledge of those who are destroyed and subjugated by these injustices.

Fandom, Scholarship

We The Fans: How Our Powers Can Change The World

June 4, 2020June 29, 2020 Shawn Taylor

As some of you know, I spent some time with the Pop Culture Collaborative as their Senior Fellow on Fandoms and how Fandom power can be used to add to the social good. What follows is a distillation of my research and findings. There are hundreds of pages that I’ll do something with at a later date. Also, for those who want it, there will be an audio version coming soon. Here’s the intro:

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