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Pandora’s Box Office: Race And Revolution In The Biggest Movie Of All Time.
Published on 27 Jan 2010 at 6:48 pm.
6 Comments.
Filed under entertainment, film, war, popular culture.
It wasn’t until several weeks after Avatar’s release that my wife and I managed to squeeze into Raleigh’s iMax theater (mid-afternoon in the middle of the business week and it was packed) to experience the phenomenon. To keep it one hunit… despite some slight reservations I thought it was awesome! It was astounding to watch, […]
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No Niggas Allowed in Next Day Mail.
Published on 11 May 2009 at 4:53 pm.
4 Comments.
Filed under black culture, entertainment, film.
These days Hollywood Black comedies fall into two categories with very few exceptions. The first, I like to call the Soul Plane category - which is basically a 21st Century minstrel show laden with the tragic identities, exaggerated personalities and stereotypes. In these films one can expect to see plenty of weed-smoking, booty smacking, gratuitous […]
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Tropic Blunder?
Published on 7 Mar 2008 at 1:02 pm.
9 Comments.
Filed under entertainment, film.
Tropic Thunder is the title of a new film, written and directed by Ben Stiller - starring, Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. (shown above). For those of you who don’t recognize Downey, he’s the character in the middle.. Uh oh. It’s the 21st Century and Black face is back in full effect!
Robert Downey […]
The Great Debate: Denzel, Violence and Scholarship
Published on 7 Dec 2007 at 12:46 pm.
7 Comments.
Filed under entertainment, film, black image.
I’m sure many of you contributed to the $121,716,990 box office smash, American Gangster (if not, I hope you at least got to check out the bootleg). Based on the true story of Frank Lucas, a notorious New York drug dealing kingpin in the late 1960s, American Gangster gives us yet another example of the […]
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Hugo Chavez, Don Cheadle and the Hatian Revolution
Published on 25 Sep 2007 at 12:55 am.
13 Comments.
Filed under positivity, entertainment, film, diaspora, radical politics.
The Haitian Revolution is one of the most significant events in world history that nobody ever talks about. When I took history in high school, and later in college, I did study the Revolutionary era where I learned about the American and French Revolutions, but never about Haiti. This silence transcended the classroom, as Haiti […]
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Blackademics Annual Review
Published on 15 Aug 2007 at 12:50 am.
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Filed under positivity, academia, women's issues/feminism, black culture, sexuality, interviews, film, history, racial rhetoric, technology.
One year ago today, we published the first Blackademics Interview with John Hope Franklin. Since then, on the 15th of every month we’ve published interviews with some of the world’s most distinguised scholars, artists and activists. On our one year anniversary, I thought it would be nice put together a little tribute to celebrate one […]
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WW2’s Buffalo Soldiers, a Spike Lee joint
Published on 8 Jul 2007 at 11:20 am.
20 Comments.
Filed under positivity, film, history.
Director Spike Lee is working on a new film that will reveal an untold story of Black leadership and valour during World War 2. The film is about the U.S. Army’s all-black 92nd “Buffalo Soldier” Division, which defended Italy from Nazi occupation in the 1940s. Based on the novel, Miracle at St. Anna by James […]
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Obama, the Magic Negro, and Rush Limbaugh
Published on 7 May 2007 at 11:37 pm.
6 Comments.
Filed under racism, news/politics, film.
On March 19th, a black columnist for the L.A. Times argued that Barack Obama was the country’s newest “Magic Negro” — a term that I was first introduced to, honestly, in a Dave Chappelle skit. Little did I know, prior to watching this comedic skit, that this term existed before Dave Chappelle in […]
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The First Black Princess
Published on 11 Mar 2007 at 2:58 pm.
11 Comments.
Filed under mainstream culture, entertainment, film, black image.
15 years ago the Disney classic Aladdin made history by introducing the world to princess Jasmine, the first leading lady of color in a Disney film. Jasmine joined the ranks of Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and the fish-lady Ariel as the heroines of the Disney princess dynasty. Since 1992, Pocahontas and Mulan have joined […]
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Stomped Out
Published on 13 Jan 2007 at 11:05 pm.
16 Comments.
Filed under racism, film, black image.
This week in Barak Obama’s home territory of Illinois, the owner of a mid-west theatre chain, Kerasotes Theatres, took measures to ban a controversial new film on Black culture, for fears that it might ignite gang violence. I’m sure you’re all wondering which outrageous Black film merits such extreme action, perhaps a new Spike Lee […]
