Tag: black actors

• Why Broadway’s Recent Surge Of Diversity Should Be Putting A Smile On Your Face

  

  We might have to hand over some pun-ny, new nicknames for Broadway’s main-stay tagline of “The Great White Way”, considering the growing embrace of Black actors and actresses in some of its most celebrated productions! In 2014 alone, two barriers were broken as Norm Lewis became the first Black male to play the manipulative yet seductive Phantom in…

  C.S.J.

  June 20, 2015

  BROADWAY/THEATRE, HISTORY, INSPIRATION, MUSIC, NOSTALGIA, RACE POLITICS/RACISM, SOCIETY, VIDEO

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• How Do Black People Really Feel About Katy Perry and Woody Allen?

  

  Currently, we have the curious cases of singer Katy Perry and filmmaker Woody Allen. While in observation of their work, for the audience members that are of color, if they were to be honest with themselves, they likely do not view or distinguish the two as full out racists. However, they might have been viewed…

  C.S.J.

  August 4, 2014

  FILM, MEDIA, MUSIC, SOCIETY

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