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Produced by Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, Nancy Buirski, Sarah Green, Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols Starring Joel Edgerton, Ruth...
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Produced by Ged Doherty, Colin Firth, Nancy Buirski, Sarah Green, Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols Starring Joel Edgerton, Ruth...
Rap, fame, education, drugs, guns, murder,the dirty South, and Donald Glover. That’s the mix we find in the new show Atlanta (FX), already positioning...
Goodness gracious! There was no getting through this past week as a black nerd without seeing Marvel’s Luke Cage series on Netflix. Unfortunately, I...
Where is my mind? These days, often not in the best place. Not after America’s week from hell, in which black men Alton Sterling...
This nerd did something he hadn’t done in a long time recently. I bought myself some toys! Sure, I still buy toys now and...
Produced by Grant Fitch, J.S. Hampton, Kevin Willmott Written and Directed by Kevin Willmott Starring Trai Byers, Tosin Morohunfola, Kevin Willmott, Danielle Cooper, Wes...
Recently, I’ve been thinking about the public self, and the nerdery cornerstone of social awkwardness. I know I’ve had my share of not fitting...
Muhammad Ali was a hero to everyone, sure, but first and foremost, he was a Black hero, one of our greatest and most influential....
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele ended their Comedy Central show last year, but they haven’t much gone anywhere. The duo’s first feature film, Keanu,...
Y’know, sometimes real life really sucks for a geek. Such as, when you can’t ever get to the comic book shop for new comics...
After all the speculation and debate, on March 3 we finally got our first trailer of the new Ghostbusters movie. Is it a sequel,...
I’ve got hope on the brain. Precisely, I’ve got “Hope,” last week’s episode of ABC sitcom Black-ish, on the brain. You know, the one...
Hello friends! First, I want to extend a big MEA CULPA for being so late with my RANT – I had a singing gig...
A few years ago, in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, my nerd-pop culture mind...
The Academy Awards are not simply about recognizing excellence in filmmaking. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences mission is to promote the...
Written by Sharon Knolle Oscars 2016 is, of course the much-discussed, much-debated year of #OscarsStillSoWhite, since no people of color were recognized in the...
As 2015 draws to a close, we’ve continued to see the dialogue around identity and the fractious reality of living out our differences together...
I didn’t know how much I needed The Wiz Live! in my life when it premiered December 3. I just though it looked kinda...
There was a very interesting moment on Saturday Night Live a few weeks ago. Sure, it already was a very special episode; comedian Tracy...
You guys: Ta-Nehisi Coates is going to write Black Panther. TA-NEHISI COATES – Pulitzer Prize-winning author at The Atlantic, America’s premier writer on race and...
One of the downsides about being a pop culture geek is that, over time, you see and read and listen to so much that...
Today, I want to talk a bit about pop culture irony. Not irony in pop culture, which we’ve long had enough of. But ironic...
Square up with your partner, knees bent. Now, step the left foot back. Plant that right foot. Kick the left foot forward, then step...
On the day this column is published, we will be living our first day on the planet Earth after Jon Stewart finished his 16-year...