While there are some notable exceptions, most of the film and TV entries in the current Black horror genre fail to dramatize the real horrors inflicted on Blacks.
Television
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This Is Not a Convention
It is every politician’s dream of a totally scripted TV unity fest. That’s OK for now, but once it’s done we need a return to real politics.
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The Most Subversive Show on Television
‘Corporate’ co-creators Matt Ingebretson and Jake Weisman have built a recognizable world based on the vice grip that corporate America holds over the country.
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The ERA and the Dynamic of Deafness
The Equal Rights Amendment was defeated less by Phyllis Schlafly than by an inward-looking failure to listen. Are we now in a moment when potential movement allies at last listen to one another?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Remote Control
A civil rights lawsuit highlights how Comcast’s monopoly crushes media diversity.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
From ‘We, the People’ to the Power of People Magazine
This year’s presidential campaigns demonstrate the steadily increasing integration of political figures into pop culture, and vice versa.
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July 16, 2019
Facebook’s Faltering on Libra. I previewed the week’s hearings for Big Tech today on the website, and I wondered whether Silicon Valley would have any allies on Capitol Hill left. It turns out they have a few, but not nearly enough. David Marcus, a vice president of Facebook, testified at the Senate Banking Committee today […]
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How Private Equity Ate Hollywood—and Why Writers Are Fighting Back
Now largely owned by private equity firms, the big talent agencies have turned to producing films and shows—both representing and employing writers. That, say the writers, doesn’t work.
