In the 1980s, there were only 63 Black films by, for, or about Black Americans. But in the 1990s, that number quadrupled, with 220 Black films making their way to cinema screens nationwide. What sparked this “Black New Wave?” Who blazed this path for contemporaries like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Jordan Peele? And how did these films transform American culture as a whole? Presenting The Class of 1989, a new limited-run series from pop culture critics Len Webb and Vincent Williams, hosts ...
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80s Cartoon Birthday Bonanza
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Happy 39th Birthday to Sweetie! In celebration, we watched a slew of 80s cartoons and discovered that we are JEM girls all the way! We watched My Little Pony, Jem and the Hollograms and She-ra Princess of Power and it felt like being wrapped in a big old blanket of nostalgia! We'll discuss all the fun action figures that went along with these cartoons (we had LOTS of MLPs) get confused about what the hell kind of world She-ra is living in, and try to pronouce the really weird names they cooked up for the My Little Pony baddies. Tireck? Scarpan? Who was in charge here?!
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Happy 39th Birthday to Sweetie! In celebration, we watched a slew of 80s cartoons and discovered that we are JEM girls all the way! We watched My Little Pony, Jem and the Hollograms and She-ra Princess of Power and it felt like being wrapped in a big old blanket of nostalgia! We'll discuss all the fun action figures that went along with these cartoons (we had LOTS of MLPs) get confused about what the hell kind of world She-ra is living in, and try to pronouce the really weird names they cooked up for the My Little Pony baddies. Tireck? Scarpan? Who was in charge here?!
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