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Phobe: The Xenophobic Experiments (1995)

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Friend of the restoration and “Debbie”, Jackey Raye Neyman Jones will personally make a Manos robe just for your pet. Check out her Etsy at etsy.com/shop/jackeyraye!

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Black Panther’s costume designer Ruth E. Carter breaks down the Warrior Falls scene.

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) dir. Joe and Anthony Russo

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Representation matters: my six favourite black female fictional lawyers.

Clair Huxtable (The Cosby Show)

Maxine Shaw (Living Single)

Joan Clayton (Girlfriends)

Jessica Pearson (Suits)

Olivia Pope (Scandal)

Annalise Keating (How to Get Away With Murder)

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Things you may not know about the legendary South African actor John Kani, who play’s T’challa’s Father/King T’chaka in Black Panther.

He lost his left eye to a beating he received from Apartheid Police and wears a glass prosthetic eye.

in the mid 1980′s, he performed in a play called “Miss Julie in Cape Town” Half of the audience walked out of the production when he kissed a white woman on stage – an act that resulted in death threats and an assassination attempt, in which he was stabbed 11 times.

in 1985, he lost his brother who was killed whilst reading a poem at a funeral when Apartheid police started shooting up at the mourners.

all of this happened in a minority ruled white supremacist country formed ON land where his people where the natives and the majority, apartheid “ended” in 1994.

sources:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/dominic-cavendish/4589941/The-Tempest-How-a-legend-of-African-theatre-was-stabbed-11-times.html

http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/bonisile-john-kani

https://www.gauteng.net/pages/page/john_kani

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Black Caesar (1973)

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You’re the chosen one. Jada Pinkett Smith as Jeryline in Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight [1995]

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Allison Williams Reveals What White People Ask Her About Get Out

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😂😂😂

fucked up how the “bad guy” in toy story 2 was just an adult toy collector and toy store owner whose only crime was getting a good deal at a yard sale 

not only that but his “evil plan” was to send woody and the other toys from woody’s line to a museum for preservation

dude winds up losing his entire livelihood and going bankrupt and sobbing on live television all because he wanted to preserve a piece of history in a museum

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the best part about stranger things is that they can’t solve anything until they put the three groups together because each group is acting within a separate genre

mike, lucas, dustin, and el are in a weird sci-fi coming of age story where the group of plucky misfit kids solve the mystery and test their friendship along the way

nancy and jonathan are in a horror movie where the teenagers have to kill the monster set against a backdrop of high school drama and romance

joyce and hopper are in a conspiracy thriller where the adults have to figure out what shady stuff the government is up to while also dealing with the difficulties of their personal lives

they all approach the issue within the confines of their genre, but none of those approaches work because none of them are seeing the whole picture. it’s only when all the threads start to converge that they can actually get anything done.

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I’m legitimately crying right now at this news. When the celebs you put your trust in and step up like they should. Oh, man.

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A very important thread. Another damning example of white men ripping off work by QTPOC. I will be joining the boycott of this film that has appropriated the work of Reina Gossett, and you should too. Fuck David France and fuck Netflix for literally stealing and profiting off Reina Gossett’s work.

You can contribute to Reina Gossett’s rent fund using venmo: Reina-Gossett or PayPal: rmgossett@gmail.com.

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seriously if you’re not watching brooklyn nine nine you need to reconsider

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Lakeith Stanfield as Damon in The Incredible Jessica James (2017)

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Anne Hathaway with The Princess Diaries producer Whitney Houston