Last week, we were thrilled to debut a new clip from Yara Shahidi’s new docu-series on Facebook Watch called Yara Shahidi’s Day Off. In last Thursday’s episode, she was able to meet with 15x chess champion Elsa Majimbo. And this week Shahidi sits down with inspirational trailblazer, model and actor Alton Mason.
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Followers of The Nerds of Color know how much we really adore Black-ish/Grown-ish star, Yara Shahidi. She’s not only an incredibly talented actress, but also a wonderfully intelligent, hard-working individual and all around kind human being. Shahidi has recently launched her new docu-series on Facebook Watch called Yara Shahidi’s Day Off, in which she meets with her celebrity peers for fun adventures, wherein they discuss matters like culture and cuisine, to hobbies, and talents.
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Are you a fan of Cobra Kai? How about Superman & Lois? This is Us? Maybe Better Call Saul? If you said “yes” to any of those, and you live in the LA area, there’s a really fun event you need to checkout! PaleyFest LA!
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It’s senior year for the Zoey Johnson (Yara Shahidi) at Cal U.
Freeform’s Grown-ish finally returns this Thursday! After taking some time off school to focus on being a stylist, Zoey is back to finish her final year with her friends and finally graduate. With Aaron and Zoey finally together after three years of “will they, won’t they,” the couple are trying to make it work.
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DreamWorks Trollstopia is the next chapter in the hair-raising adventures of the Trolls. Now that Poppy knows there are other musical Trolls scattered throughout the forest, she bottles up her endless positivity and invites delegates from every Troll tribe in the forest to live together in harmony in a grand experiment she calls TrollsTopia.
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“Give Me A Chance and I’ll Change The World” — Beau Sia
One of my favorite spoken word poems of all time belongs to Beau Sia. In his piece “Give Me A Chance” he talks about the extreme difficulties of being an Asian performer in a country where far too often he is seen as an exotic commodity or is just plain invisible. Although the poem came out over 10 years ago, it is just as relevant today as it was back then, as his poem has been on my mind the past few days, what with the recent reveals of Tilda Swinton playing a Tibetan bald monk in Doctor Strange and now Scarlett Johansson as Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell. And in case people forgot, The U.S. adaptation of Death Note is now coming to Netflix with Nat Wolff playing Light Yagami. Yes, just like the other anime adaptation, they didn’t bother to change his last name (I can already hear the arguments that white people can have Japanese surnames too, how dare you be so narrow-minded Edward).
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On last night’s episode of the ABC comedy show black-ish, the sitcom took a big chance and dedicated an entire episode on police brutality, racism, and the effectiveness of the American justice system. Although I only catch an episode of this show every now and then, I was made very well aware of this particular episode for some time because of its decision to center this episode on such heavy topics. And boy, it did not disappoint.
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Numerous people have reached out to me about my thoughts on the new Shaft movie, which New Line Cinema recently announced would be more comedic in tone. Here are my thoughts…
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