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Netflix’s new film, “Shirley,” chronicles the audacious 1972 presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress. It stars Regina King, Lance Reddick, and Terrence Howard in the main roles and is released on 22 March, 2024. The life of Shirley Chisholm Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1924 to immigrant parents, […]
Photo via Netflix Netflix…*sigh* is hellbent on testing not just loyalties but also the human limit of how long we can suppress our desire to dole out some divine justice as the streamer systematically yanks the rug out from under every popular fantasy series. Thus, fearing for the safety of every new fantasy drama that […]
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 […]
Photo by Emmanuel Guimier According to the Hollywood Reporter, Omar Sy is being considered to play the role of Yasuke, an enslaved African who became a samurai in feudal Japan as a comrade-in-arms to the legendary Oda Nobunaga. The Yasuke series will draw on Craig Shreve’s soon-to-be published novel African Samurai, which 21 Laps optioned […]
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