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When Anti-Homophobic Rhetoric Turns Reactionary:Another Look at The Boondocks & Tyler Perry
Published on 4 Jul 2010 at 3:05 pm.
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Filed under men's issues, black culture, mainstream culture, sexuality, television, entertainment, black image, art, popular culture, LGBT.
Aaron McGruder’s notorious animated series, “The Boondocks”, has been engaged in radical critiques of black culture, black political formations and black identity politics since its 1996 inception in The Diamondback, the student newspaper at the University of Maryland. “The Boondocks” has grown from a student newspaper comic strip to a nationally syndicated television series that […]
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Independent Black Gay and Lesbian Publisher, Redbone Press presents: Gospel by Samiya Bashir
Published on 18 May 2009 at 10:21 am.
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Filed under art, LGBT, poetry.
A riveting review by guest Blackademics guest contributor Alexis Pauline Gumbs
In the beginning there was the word. And before that there was the darkness. Gospel, Samiya Bashir’s new collection of poems, published by independent black gay and lesbian publisher Redbone Press, is an extended meditation on the relationship between that darkness and the […]
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