FX’s Pose will strut one last time in its third and final. The groundbreaking series has been a landmark for queer and trans characters in film. Co-creators Steven Canal, Ryan Murphy, and Brad Falbruk announced the premiere date for the final season, May 2nd. The third season will consist of seven abbreviated episodes. One less …
Though Black biographical films are by no means a novelty, their number has grown considerably alongside the twenty-first century’s explosion of platforms for and interest in Black media. For many years now, they have thrust well-known Black historical figures into the spotlight and, sometimes, achieved blockbuster status. The mid 2010s, for example, saw the late, …
The culture of African Americans is unlike any other. All at once, it has survived centuries of violent adversity, it is renowned for how powerfully it can channel both joy and sorrow, it has become so accustomed to sorrow that it regularly mocks it, and for a sizeable portion of American history (and sometimes today), …
Langston Bleu, a D.C native and an upcoming R&B/Pop act, is one artist to watch this year. In addition, his recent single, “Slow Down” he\’s earned an ASCAP Quincy Jones Award. He is on track to setting his own path of success. With Soundcloud naming him “Artist to Watch” this past August, it’s evidently clear that his …
HBO’s new four-part miniseries Allen v. Farrow has been on thousands of minds since the first episode’s release last Sunday. The series, which features appearances from actress Mia Farrow and all but two of her children, revisits a decades-old, world-famous dispute between Farrow and filmmaker Woody Allen that began with Farrow and her adopted daughter …
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Judas and The Black Messiah, directed by Shaka King, is a dramatization of the final year of Chairman Hampton\’s life before his assassination. The Chicago State Attorney attempted to paint a false narrative about the assassination, claiming police were defending themselves against the gunfire of the Panthers. The media also slandered the characters of Hampton …
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Judas and The Black Messiah, directed by Shaka King, is a dramatization of the final year of Chairman Hampton\’s life before his assassination. The Chicago State Attorney attempted to paint a false narrative about the assassination, claiming police were defending themselves against the gunfire of the Panthers. The media also slandered the characters of Hampton …
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Judas and The Black Messiah, directed by Shaka King, is a dramatization of the final year of Chairman Hampton\’s life before his assassination. The Chicago State Attorney attempted to paint a false narrative about the assassination, claiming police were defending themselves against the gunfire of the Panthers. The media also slandered the characters of Hampton …
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Early Friday morning, rapper Young Stretch, 20, whose real name was Anthony Parks, was shot and killed by two assailants during a music video shoot for his hit song “Bloodbath” in his native Atlanta, Georgia. Four members of Parks’ security team were also killed in the incident, and ten people were injured. Both suspects remain …
If you have read a few of my articles for The DC Voice, you likely know how profound it is to me that Black people have survived and succeeded in quite literally every situation that promised to crush them. I consider it an egregious understatement to simply say that this is something to be proud …
