Tag Archives: blackness

What Michael B. Jordan’s GQ Interview Reveals about Race

Talking about diversity and representations of blackness can be frought terrain, even now when we are seeing so many more Black men and women in key roles in front of, and behind, the camera. I thought about this immediately when … Continue reading

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Race, Ethnicity, and ‘The Vampire Diaries’

In a fairly inoffensive, if silly, roundtable discussion post on AfterElton about The CW’s brilliant, The Vampire Diaries, this jumped out at me: There’s yet to be much of a gay presence on the show. (Sorry folks, Caroline’s deceased Dad … Continue reading

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Reviewing Will Smith’s Hancock

!!! WARNING – SPOILERS BELOW !!!! Hancock is a big incoherent mess, anchored beautifully by Will Smith’s brilliant central performance.  But it’s also an intriguing, big incoherent mess. Hancock continues Will’s recent trend to combine depth and spectacle.  It also, … Continue reading

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