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Like the United States, Latin America uses Black imagery and culture as a marker of marketable street culture or “cool,” all while diminishing the originators and often shutting them out of the movements they create. It is then used to create a “unifying” concept of national culture exported globally. On the surface, Latinidad offers shared […]
US cancer patient’s dying wish erases $16m in people’s medical debt BBC.com Source link
By Madeline Halpert BBC News, New York 26 minutes ago Image source, Instagram/ McIntyre family Image caption, Casey McIntyre wrote: “if you’re reading this I have passed away” A New York City woman who died of ovarian cancer has raised enough money to pay off millions of dollars in other people’s medical debts.
I’m not going to lie — when I saw the preview for the Netflix film You People, starring Jonah Hill and Lauren London, about a white Jewish man and Black Muslim woman who fall in love, I was both curious and maybe a little hopeful that You People would be a modern Black/Jewish retelling of Guess Who’s Coming to […]
(L to R) Jonah Hill as Ezra and Lauren London as Amira in ‘You People.’ Photo by Parrish Lewis/Netflix By Ilana Kaufman February 8, 2023 I’m not going to lie — when I saw the preview for the Netflix film You People, starring Jonah Hill and Lauren London, about a white Jewish man and Black […]
Hollywood undermines Africa’s struggles, creating a false impression of the continent to please western viewers. While the story told in The Woman King took place in what is now Benin, the film was shot in South Africa. Image courtesy (Ilze Kitshoff/Sony Pictures Entertainment) The latest film by director Gina Prince-Bythewood, The Woman King, is about […]
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