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Posted Thursday 6/18/20 at 1:31PM EDT
HBO is offering Watchmen for free all weekend in honor of Juneteenth
All nine episodes will be available to stream for free from Friday through Sunday.
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Posted Thursday 6/18/20 at 1:31PM EDT
FX to celebrate Juneteenth with Selma, Hidden Figures, Get Out and marathons of Black-ish and Atlanta
All FX Networks will honor the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States with an all-day Juneteenth...
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Posted Thursday 6/18/20 at 3:17AM EDT
Rachel Lindsay: I hated the timing of the first black Bachelor announcement
Although the former Bachelorette had ramped up her criticism of The Bachelor franchise for not having a black lead amid...
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HBO Max taps TCM's first African-American host Jacqueline Stewart to introduce Gone with the Wind
Last September, University of Chicago film professor Stewart, who specializes in African-American film history, became the first black host in...
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Posted Friday 6/12/20 at 4:24PM EDT
Matt James as the first black Bachelor can't right the show's "racist history"
"It’s a positive, if long overdue, sign that the franchise is beginning to take its race problem seriously," says Laura Bradley...
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The Bachelor names Matt James as its first-ever black lead
The 28-year-old James, who was named a contestant on Clare Crawley's upcoming Bachelorette season that was delayed due to the...
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Posted Tuesday 6/09/20 at 7:16PM EDT
Sherman's Showcase Black History Month Spectacular airs next week with perfect timing
Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin's IFC musical sketch comedy series announced in January that it would celebrate Black History Month...
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Posted Tuesday 6/02/20 at 7:52PM EDT
Black-ish tonight will re-air its 2016 police brutality episode
The February 2016 "Hope" episode is more relevant than ever in June 2020.
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Posted Saturday 5/23/20 at 4:35AM EDT
Insecure's Molly-Andrew relationship is helping to push back against racial bias in the real world
"The Molly-Andrew relationship is part of a larger cultural trend in which black women, especially those of medium-to-dark-brown complexions —...
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Posted Saturday 5/16/20 at 4:33AM EDT
Recalling the rise and fall of black shows on UPN
"By the time 1998 rolled around, black TV shows with black leads telling black stories were no longer as plentiful...
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Posted Thursday 5/14/20 at 3:18PM EDT
Goodbye to How to Get Away with Murder's Annalise Keating, one of the most complex back women in TV history
Viola Davis' Annalise Keating is "a character whose permission to be bad made her a pop-culture revelation.
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Posted Saturday 5/02/20 at 6:13AM EDT
Kenya Barris defends Rashida Jones' casting on #blackAF
Since premiering two weeks ago, Barris' Netflix comedy has sparked a social media debate over a lack of dark-skinned black...
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Posted Saturday 4/25/20 at 8:00AM EDT
Kenya Barris' #blackAF unintentionally reveals his real struggle: That he only values the opinions of white audiences and critics
"Approval from his own community is meaningless if it isn’t couched in white validation," says Cate Young.
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Posted Tuesday 4/07/20 at 3:45AM EDT
Harriet Glickman, who was responsible for Peanuts' first black character Franklin, dies at 93
Glickman was a former schoolteacher in April 1968 when she wrote a letter to Charles M.
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool Made My Black History Month
I used to criticize TV’s practice of scheduling all its black-themed programming in a single month (the shortest of the...