I Am Captain America: Get Used to It
by Thaddeus Howze While Marvel Comics has never allowed Sam Wilson to remain Captain America, it is good to see
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An Endorsement: Tim Fielder’s ‘Infinitum’
Afrofuturism is having a moment. First posited by journalist Mark Dery in the early 1990s, Afrofuturism is now a full-blown social, cultural, psychological, technological, and aesthetic movement. And never has this movement, this moment, been more fully realized than in Tim Fielder’s magnum opus, Infinitum. To call it a graphic novel would be to undercut it’s value. It is an enterprise of speculative cultural cartography.
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Southern Fried Asian: Dr. David Surratt
On a new episode of Southern Fried Asian, Keith is joined by Vice President for Student Affairs & Dean of
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Give Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield Their Roses for ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’
With regard to director Shaka King’s masterpiece, the aforementioned sentiment goes double for Kaluuya’s fellow cast members Dominique Fishback, Ashton
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Ava DuVernay’s Collection of Work is Necessary Viewing for Students and Educators Alike
Six years ago, I was student teaching in Durham under the graduate MAT program at Duke University and was well
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No More Mrs. Frozone: Black Women Characters in Pixar’s ‘Soul’
There aren’t many Black adult women in animated features. Pixar Soul gives us two more. Constance Gibbs speaks to the actresses behind the characters.
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NOC Interview: Chris Redd of ‘Saturday Night Live’
Chris Redd is humbled by the company he shares, being only one of 20 other Black players in SNL’s storied
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Cartoonist Keith Knight on ‘Woke,’ Politics, and the Power of Comics
Keith Knight is the creator of three popular comic strips: the Knight Life, (th)ink, and the K Chronicles. He has
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DC FanDome: How ‘Watchmen’ Explores the Issues of Corrupt Power and Systemic Racism
“When the police masked [in the events of the show], it raised the question of accountability, because at some point,
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Chadwick Boseman Was a Source of Light in My Understanding of a Black Hero
In the Bantu language Xhosa, Ulwimi olunye alwanelanga tu means “One language is never enough.” In the wake of Chadwick
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Black Freedom Beyond Borders: Memories of Abolition Day
It’s Black August. In commemoration of this day, Wakanda Dream Lab + Policy Link have released the free augmented reality
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Shawn Went to ‘Lovecraft Country’ and Came Back with this Endorsement
Why Lovecraft? How could a virulent racist’s work be used to tell the story of Black folks in the height of the 1950s Jim Crow era United States?
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They Are Still Killing Radio Raheem
In just over a month, Spike Lee’s masterful Do the Right Thing will be 31 years old. Me and a
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All Good Things…
As soon as I was exposed to it, I was a rabid fan of Star Trek. We share a birthday,
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February 2020: Black Wizard History Month
Our mission at Black Girls Create has always been highlighting Black female creators and being a place for discussions of
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Mega Ran on The Soul Man
My relationship with professional wrestling is very complicated at best. I watched my first wrestling match sometime around 1983, and
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Hard NOC Life: Watching the ‘Watchmen’
On a new episode of Hard NOC Life, Shawn returns and joins Dominic and Keith to break down HBO’s Watchmen
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Will Deadshot Dead Idris Elba’s Career?
Idris Elba will replace Will Smith in the James Gunn-helmed Suicide Squad, dropping in 2021. For some reason, to me,
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Spider-Man Enters the ‘Spider-Verse’
I can’t believe I live in a world where I was able to see both Black Panther and Spider-Man: Into the
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Interviewing Kiki Layne of ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’
There is no question the work of writer and activist James Baldwin is timeless and timely because no matter how
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Stephan James Talks ‘Beale Street’ and Black Love
Barry Jenkins’ new film If Beale Street Could Talk is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by
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‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ is an Impressive Achievement
New York City isn’t the diverse utopia many think it is. If there is any system that shows just how
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Hard NOC Life: Olivia Munn vs. Super Predator
This week on Hard NOC Life, Keith is joined by his DC TV Classics co-host Britney Monae to fill in
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