Category: Features
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Born to….Bring the Pain….
Legend has it, in 1974 Clive Davis took a limo from his office at Black Rock all the way to West Long Branch, NJ… to tell Bruce Springsteen he was on the verge of being dropped from Columbia Records unless his next opus had hits. The Boss, was running on fumes, fueled by the fear…
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Comedy, Magic, and ‘Merica… from a trusted source
For the last 10 years, “cultural inclusion in Hollywood” has served as both a four-letter word for some and a battle cry for others. From making his bones as a pitching staff writer on In Living Color to co-creating the Bernie Mac Show and Insecure, Larry Wilmore has been leading the charge…by not only composing…
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The Dreamer – one artist’s take
Shine Dave Chappelle’s “C” logo (with the red at the top and green at the bottom) on the side of any building and watch Millennials and members of Generation X walk towards it like summoned ThunderCats… Not since Muhammad Ali has there been a cultural warrior fighting some of the hardest fights; with both an…
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Shots fired … in Defense.
Only time will tell if Katt Williams’ appearance on Shannon Sharpe’s couch will be equivalent to Suge Knight’s acceptance speech at the 1995 Vibe Awards. If you’re familiar with my writing style, you know I use obscure pop culture references to illustrate the patterns I see. Not since Suge Knight’s starter pistol of an acceptance…
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Guard changes
In my own words, a consistent theme of Roy Wood Jr’s comedy is “common sense is still common sense…and if you don’t see it, you’re probably looking at it incorrectly.” We’ll come back to this. I’m not entirely sure if it was the universe’s atonement for the 24 hr news cycle or the amount of…
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how I experienced ‘selective outrage’
I didn’t see the hour Chris Rock was developing prior to the 2022 Oscars , but immediately thereafter the world only wanted to hear the SNL alum talk about one thing. Admittedly I was curious too. So when I went to the live show at Constitution Hall in DC prior to the Netflix broadcast(!) in…
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