Can’t white musicians just make videos where they’re sitting in an organic mayonnaise crafters drinking cage free water or whatever? Why they got to sprinkle random brown people in all their half assed bullshit? I doubt Beyonce even knows what she’s appearing in anymore but someone on her team should know better.

“Outro/Call to Action Options”. Marketing speak. Ugh.

BET has produced one original series in 25+ years of broadcasting. One. So no, that’s not a network. Providing record labels with a platform to hock their wares is not a network.

I feel you and I’m cool with this being the last slave movie for a while. Especially if this one ends with Nat going HAM and killing the shit out of a bunch of slave holders and their white enablers. We can cover what white folks did to Nat and all the other innocent black people they lynched after the revolt was…

Not only were there black advertising executives in the 60's. There were black female advertising executives in the 60's who went on to work for black owned advertising firms.

You’re not wrong there.

I can’t stand that bullshit they try and make people believe about “realism”. Black people have always existed whether white people want to acknowledge it or not. Sidney Poiter, Harry Belafonte, Eartha Kitt, Dorthy Dandridge were all huge stars in the 1950's. How do we know this? Because America was openly racist in…

Don’t you know women and people of color who could speak weren’t invented until 2015? How’s he supposed to make a movie about 2008 and have women in it? That’s not realistic!

“The male Sienna Miller”. You wrong for that!

Patronizing, entitled, self-absorbed and reductive. Had you asked a girl to make you a sandwich and that would have been the whitest thing I’ve ever read on the internet.

Producers, pick up your phone. Call your agent. Tell him or her to send you scripts from all the black/asian/latinx writers repped at their agency. Read them. Set meetings with all the writers of the scripts you liked. Hire one of them. Repeat.

Dang. Thanks for the clarification. I thought the art was incredible. This cover hooked me on NM during one of my “buy whatever looks the coolest” stretches. Plus, she’s hot so... evolutionary biology ftw.

Fucking finally! Wasn’t the writer battling depression and that’s what derailed the book? I’d be dpressed too if I created something so fresh, vibrant and entertaining and had to keep doing it every month.

That’s what Hollywood has programmed you to believe. There have been black people in movies as long as there have been movies. No one’s saying every other actor in Hail, Caesar should be a person of color but not writing a POC into the script when there were black actors in Hollywood at the time of the film is…

Diversity!

What am I missing? I mean it’s good that people who last worked on Harold & Maude won’t be deciding whether Isis Ebola can act or not is good but isn’t this just like providing three “Special VP in charge of Diversity” slots instead of the usual one?

I can’t even believe they said that shit. I mean. Wow.

That sounds reasonable but the academy recognizing another slave tale while ignoring tales of black agency, empowerment and triumph is telling. What’s more the Academy expanded the Best Picture category to ten films in 2009 for the express purpose of including more films of critical and commercial merit. So for the…

Selma being good or bad is subjective. I found both Selma and 12Years at times riveting and, like many Oscar-bait films, necessary. Was In the Name of the Father or The Piano better or worse than Schindler’s List? That’s subjective. The point is their directors were all recognized along with their films. Not even…

Racism is believing that people of color inherently lack talent or are unable to produce anything worthy of recognition. Like when professional critical bodies single out performances from a film like oh, I don’t know Selma or Creed or Straight Outta Compton and those people get recognized by everyone except the…