Young Love, Blaxploitation, Pam Grier, "Cinnamon" Has It All
…memorable. It’s a shock they all come from the same talented actor. The film’s title would be at home with those like Pam Grier’s Foxy Brown or Coffy. Seeing a…
…memorable. It’s a shock they all come from the same talented actor. The film’s title would be at home with those like Pam Grier’s Foxy Brown or Coffy. Seeing a…
…about the nineties, about reality television, about how Black and brown women are portrayed in media. And of course, first and foremost, the epidemic of missing Black, brown, and Indigenous…
…dynamic character arc in the show. He also showcases a bigger, queer, brown body being a badass! Guillermo is the “familiar” of Nandor, a demanding and adventurous vampire who Guillermo…
…problems. But lately, reality TV doesn’t make me forget, it only reminds me that brown and Black women are subject to an entirely different set of rules when it comes…
…his way to becoming a household name. WAITING TO WATCH This is about Black and brown and queer and Asian people experiencing love and luxury and beauty and all of…
…It’s definitely time to talk about the soundtrack. Duuuude! It was good! I personally had it on cassette tape. The track listing includes jams from A Lighter Shade of Brown…
…have learned this lesson time and time again: representation leads to participation. The silent communication between the brown-skinned girl on the cover of a debut novel and a young Mexican…
…Sylvia Mendez is a Mexican-Puerto Rican civil rights activist whose monumental lawsuit against Westminster School District was the precursor for Brown v. Board of Education. When she was just eight…
…into the mainstream beauty box. Because of Raquel Welch, we had a darker-haired, brown-eyed Bolivian woman looking back at millions of Latinas from their television and movie theater screens. And…
…Nadia (Amy-Leigh Hickman), a fascinating character. Nadia is the intelligent Brown woman version of Joe sans homicidal tendencies, and we do not see her nearly enough. Rian Johnson’s rejuvenation of…