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Idris Elba
October 12, 2017
Jo Livingstone
The Mountain Between Us is a Lesson in Bad Casting
The plane crash survival film could have been a new achievement for the genre, if it wasn't for its one abysmal lead.
February 26, 2015
Noah Berlatsky
Hollywood Needs a Black Superhero Fit for the Ferguson Era
December 30, 2014
Sam Eifling
Why James Bond Isn't Black
Because Hollywood's racial biases look a lot like Rush Limbaugh's
December 9, 2009
John McWhorter
Tigergate Isn't a Black Thing -- Despite What Some Would Prefer
December 9, 2009
John McWhorter
How Is Tiger Woods "Racial"? And Isn't That Progress?

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