Jason Parham and Prentice Penny on the Response to ‘Black Twitter: A People’s History’

During the Disney 2024 Upfront Red Carpet, I spoke with Jason Parham and executive producer Prentice Penny about Black Twitter: A People’s History. The docuseries, which is currently streaming on Hulu, is based on Parham’s WIRED cover story, “A People’s History of Black Twitter.”

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Spare Parts: An Emotional Roller Coaster at the Theme Park of Broken Immigration Policy

The number of PG or PG-13 films that really move or inspire me is not that large. Somewhere at the top of that list is Finding Neverland. It’s tough to remember exactly what was going on with me at the time, but I remember it hit me hard. There is now a new contender: Spare Parts. The movie is based on this Wired article about four undocumented high school students from Arizona with a shoestring budget that enter and win a national robotics competition. Oh, and they end up at the college level knocking off the likes of MIT students.

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Genius Co-Writer Marc Bernardin’s Nerd Origin

As you know, Image/Top Cow releases the hotly anticipated weekly series Genius today. Before  you head out to your local comic shop, make sure you check out Shawn’s very nuanced endorsement of the series.

The co-creator of the book and friend of the blog, Marc Bernardin, was a guest on Hard NOC Life recently and talked briefly about the series.

He was also asked by Wired to “write a piece charting his childhood voyage through the nerd-culture landscape — a landscape that rarely felt like a place he belonged.”

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The Adventures of Links

Since The Nerds of Color is not the only awesome thing on the internet, here are five links you should click on.


Seems that Jenn isn’t the only person who identifies with the Yellow Ranger. Over on The Toast, cartoonist Shing Yin Khor finds inspiration from everyone’s favorite Asian American Mighty Morphin’ Power Ranger to deal with a lot of unfortunate questions and comments from a lot of unfortunate people.

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“Smash the patriarchy,” indeed!

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