latest ARTICLES by frantz
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Cinema, Media, Movies, ReviewThe Fire This Time: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ Is Somber Brilliance
I Am Not Your Negro is a lesson in duality in both form and function. The film is equal parts…
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Features, Guilty Pleasure Confessional#GuiltyPleasureConfessional: “Dawson’s Creek” Had Me At Hello
High school. I didn’t know what to make of the world at the time. Everything in my life was changing.…
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Action, Media, Review, TV ShowsInternational All Black Everything: Cleverman Goes Hard In The Representation
Right now, Black is the new Black. I mean, really. It’s all noir everything in the public sphere. The cast…
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Media, Movies, ReviewBrooklyn Zoo: Why Zootopia Has No Chill
[divider type=”thin”] Zootopia goes HAM, confronting the rampant hypocrisy of race, gender, class, and politics in the United States. Seeing…
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Editorials, Features, ReviewThe Gray Album: The Divergent Paths of Nerd Core and NerdRap
At the crux of hip-hop and nerddom, for me, is Nerd Core — which I appreciate as a black nerd,…
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ReviewSocial Commentary and Wrestling Tag-Team on Mankind: The Fall Mixtape
Mankind: The Fall is equal parts defibrillator, first aid kit, a kick in the mouth, and call to action. The…
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Editorials, FeaturesThe Cool: Hip-Hop, Comics, and Remix Culture
Hip-Hop and comics have always been a match made in heaven. Both have ‘narrative rearrangement’ written into their developmental core.…
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Editorials, Features, Media, Movies, TV ShowsWhere They At Though: POC Narratives In Time Travel
You know what time it is! Nah, no you don’t! Because there’s like a thousand time-travel themed TV show episodes…
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UncategorizedWakanda Forever Review [WORK IN PROGRESS]
It feels like Black Panther films always drop in the midst of turmoil in this country. Or, this country is…
