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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Old Soaps, Same Stories... Pretty Much
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Howdy folks! We're trying our hand at this podcast thing again, talking soap deaths, soap lifes, old faces at new soaps, old faces leaving old soaps... You get the picture. The feedback from our last (first in-a-while) podcast was incredible. And I mean, incredible. So do your thing as only you know how, because we do this for you, and only you, and we just love hearing from you.&
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Howdy folks! We're trying our hand at this podcast thing again, talking soap deaths, soap lifes, old faces at new soaps, old faces leaving old soaps... You get the picture. The feedback from our last (first in-a-while) podcast was incredible. And I mean, incredible. So do your thing as only you know how, because we do this for you, and only you, and we just love hearing from you.&
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