In a crowded television market with networks not just competing with traditional line-in cable programming but with the ever-increasingly might of streaming services that are offering original programming that network television shows will never air, a network-based TV show that gets renewed past one season is becoming the new high bar jump. One such show is […]
Read more "Where ‘The Good Place’ Goes Bad"I was listening to Larry Wilmore’s podcast “Black on the Air” for the first time and it was a recent one interviewing Ta-Nehesi Coates, and it was cool to hear him FINALLY being interviewed about these things by a black interviewer. While it was still an interview, the banter between two intelligent black men as […]
Read more "In the Error of Trump"Just so you know, I have a podcast. Myself and former current bloggers Jay from AverageBro.com and RiPpa from the Intersection of Madness and Reality have joined vocal forces and are doing a podcast. We blogged for the Obama presidency, and we’re podcasting for the Trump one. Check us out on the various platforms: iTunes […]
Read more "The Uppity Negro Has a Podcast!"Black pop-culture this week has been dominated by the firestorm of commentaries and stories emanating from the firebrand acceptance speech that Jesse Williams, the actor of “Grey’s Anatomy” delivered upon receiving Black Entertainment Television’s (BET) humanitarian award at their annual awards show. The entire transcript is here, and it’s worth watching or reading. My mind […]
Read more "9 Things to Help You Understand Jesse Williams, Cultural Appropriation and General Blackness"Dear White People Concept Trailer from Justin Simien on Vimeo. In the vein of “Higher Learning” and “School Daze” there is a spoof video that is premiering at 2014 Sundance called “Dear White People” highlighting the interactions of black faces in the white space of ivy league-esque collegiate education. I watched the trailer, and of […]
Read more "Dear Black People…"I began to pen this less than one hour after the press conference occurred. Apparently the president of the United States, Barack Obama appeared at a regular press briefing held by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, and fielded one question surrounding the death of Trayvon Martin and the verdict in the George Zimmerman case […]
Read more "Restoring Blackness: Obama’s Commentary on Trayvon Martin"Over the past two days, two videos featuring black parents videotaping their forms of discipline have made their way onto my Facebook timeline. Please watch both of them in their entirety, I have some challenges with what’s being displayed. First, I’d like to discuss the young ladies and their father beating them. Yes, beating them. […]
Read more "My Challenge to Black Parents and the Continued Pornography of Violence"