By Brittany Willis I spent the latter part of my holiday break binge watching Black Mirror, mostly because of the hype surrounding the fourth season, but also because I love all things horror and sci-fi. The show had been sitting…
By Austin S. Harris In Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, one of the year’s most acclaimed films, Sam Rockwell plays a moronic racist cop who is known to have tortured a Black suspect. He has rightfully received critical acclaim for…
By Brittany Frederick I’m not going to front, I binged the Hulu original The Handmaid’s Tale at the behest of my friend who promised me it was exactly like Trump’s America. While the series, and Margaret Atwood’s novel that served…
Editor's Note: This post contains spoilers of the FX show Legion. By A’isha Saleh I am one of Marvel’s biggest fans. Both in film and television, I think they are going above and beyond to achieve excellence in their craft.…
By Aisha Mirza To be clear, I am not a fool, and therefore my expectations were not sky-high for a movie about heteronormative interracial love written by Kumail Nanjiani, a Pakistani comedian, and his white wife Emily Gordon. There were…
By Leslie Afua Sometimes, we can be gullible as hell. I’m not even going to touch the fact that a lot of us are still watching the NFL despite its anti-Black and sexist history. Instead I’m going to focus on…
By Sherronda J. Brown Writer’s Note: This essay contains spoilers for The Girl With All The Gifts The zombie narrative in Western horror has always been rooted in fear of the destruction of the dominant white society, the disruption of…
By Maurice Tracy Even after reading the Vulture article in which showruners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss explained their reasoning behind the idea, I still can’t with their “the South won the war” fantasy show in the making. Not just…
By Roman Johnson *Disclaimer: This essay contains show spoilers related to Starz’s American Gods, episodes 1-4. “One of the things about writing the 'Laura' episode is that it gave a doorway into a world that was uniquely ours.†– Bryan…
By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Last week, Jenn Jackson, a PhD student at the University of Chicago, Managing Editor of Black Youth Project, and a writer published in a variety of venues such as B*tch Media, took to Twitter to instigate thoughtful…
