latest ARTICLES by lauren
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Media, Review, TV Shows2 Dope Queens Celebrate Black History Month on HBO
Those of us who have been fans of Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson’s live comedy were thrilled to hear that…
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Editorials, Features, Media, TV ShowsMore Black Girl Magic Comes to HBO: 2 Dope Queens
It may have taken me awhile to get “2 Dope Queens” into my regular podcast rotation, but Jessica Williams and…
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Media, Movies, ReviewNow Streaming, ‘Mudbound’ On Race, War and Redemption
Three years ago this month, my son was born via emergency cesarean; he had a true knot in his umbilical…
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Features, Media, TV ShowsN.K. Jemisin’s Hugo-winning The Fifth Season coming to TNT
All she does is win, win, win, win, win! On the heels of sci-fi writer N.K. Jemisin’s second Hugo Award…
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Cinema, Editorials, Features, Guilty Pleasure Confessional, Media, Movies
#GuiltyPleasureConfessional: The Legend of Billie Jean
Recently, a former coworker, a white guy, posted on the Book of Faces that Blazing Saddles is the best western…
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Editorials, Features
Not Your Superwoman: The Archetype of the Strong Black Woman
“I’m not your Superwoman I’m not the kind of girl that you can let down And think that everything’s okay”…
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Editorials, FeaturesThe Quiet Brilliance of Ava DuVernay’s Queen Sugar
In September 2016, a marvelous thing happened–two television shows, both created and produced by Black people and showcasing contemporary Black…
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Features, Guilty Pleasure Confessional, Media, TV Shows#GuiltyPleasureConfessional: Into Each Generation, A Grimm Is Born
*** Mostly spoiler-free*** As one of the many people who was lost–nay, bereft–after Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended its seven-year…
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Editorials, Features, Media, TV ShowsActually, I Don’t Have Time: Breaking up with Orange Is the New Black
*Full of as many spoilers as OITNB’s writers room is full of white people* Forty years. I turned 40 in…
