Remember when the cast of Riverdale got in that car accident driving themselves home after a 18-hour day? This is why talent should have transportation.
Let’s stop acting like Taraji is being a diva.
“I wish he just would have killed me if I knew I had to go through this” —Megan Thee Stallion on the mistreatment she endured after coming forward.
This hurts. This is how misogynoir harms us. If a famous Black woman wants to die after being assaulted, none of us are OK.
Abuse. Rape. Torture porn. Directors leaving. Unfinished scripts. Eggs dwindling in a vagina. Character begging to be sexually assaulted. Crew members pissed. Unprofessional nepo behavior, bad acting…and this is your corny response?
Abel, bye.
When there’s a Black presenter for a category with a Black nominee, you can tell by their face RIGHT when they open that envelope if we won LMAO
#GoldenGlobes
Marvel star Jonathan Majors arrives in court holding hands with girlfriend Meagan Good. Once inside the courtroom, Good had her arm around Majors and stroked his head.
Majors is facing assault and harassment charges for a case involving an ex-girlfriend.
Imagine being in a film produced by a billionaire and almost having to walk away from a dream role bc they don’t value you and won’t pay what you’re worth.
Wild.
Oh she’s NOT PLAYING. And she hasn’t been for years.
But to hear that she almost walked away from The Color Purple(!!!!!!!)😭
They better stop playing with Taraji and Black women period.
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@angelique814
Remember when Elizabeth Banks said Spielberg had never directed a film with women leads and we had to remind her ass of The Color Purple?
These girl boss white feminists truly do not have any sense or peripheral vision. Lol
when was the last major blockbuster you can remember that was made for a female audience? (i’ll wait). up to now, Hollywood did not think women were important. execs think the audience is men and boys and their moms / wives / girlfriends will see what they want to see
In this interview, Ashanti basically says that she was manipulated and taken advantage of by Irv and feared that if she didn’t fuck that ogre, he wouldn’t let her record. He groomed and coerced her and we ALL know what that means.
This Ashanti interview also reminds you that men are never your friends. Cause Ja telling her that despite the lies, he was gonna stay neutral during that Drink Champs interview tells me everything I need to know how men are allergic to holding each other accountable.
@BowTiedKong
What’s his personality like? Is he kind? Does he call women “females?” Is he intimidated by women who have their own education, career and money? Is he controlling? Is he a good listener? Is he more negative than positive? Does he have a temper? Money is NEVER enough
In 2018, I worked on an article with a Black survivor for a Black media outlet. The woman was adamant that she had been assaulted by a beloved Black man who worked in the tech space.
Her story was in the gray area— a Aziz Ansari type assault. She pushed back, he coerced her.
@NilBonini
Literally more Africans were enslaved in Brazil than the entire US. Y’all have the very same if not worse race issues, esp around representation in the media. so don’t come over here acting brand new about why race matters in the US. Thanks!
Point proven. That 30 million continues to be repeated when it’s not true. The amount is undisclosed.
And starting this off with “WILDDD!” Is so damn disrespectful and trivializes the abuse Cassie endured.
Then y’all wanna get mad when folks go to that lady and her bob.
This is why BET not covering Cassie’s lawsuit against Diddy matters. This is why questioning the language of Essence’s tweets matter. Trying to suppress someone’s story, whether it’s for a doc like On the Record or a news article, is dangerous.
Next thing I know, my editor tells me we have to drop the story. It can’t be published.
Y’all, this is how powerful men work. They make a call to a friend, a decision maker, a gatekeeper. That person in charge chooses to grant their homie a favor, which suppresses the truth.
ALSO...WHERE ARE THE WOMEN'S ORGS??? I went to look at some of the most prominent women's org social media and sites, including those that specialize in Black survivors and it's crickets...
People keep asking about the lack of real movie stars. Nah boo, they here...ACTING ACTING by damn near melting the screen.
I am really excited about what their future holds.
@WestminsterWAG
@MarinaPurkiss
NO. You tell your white queen to give back the jewels she and her family stole from Africa and India and other countries you all colonized. Your culture is rooted in racism, so keep that same energy for Lizzie and them.
Our Black legacy publications and institutions are complicit in the degradation of Black women. They would rather protect their bottom line, relationships with celebs and powerful people, book that stupid event for clout and sponsorship, than do the right fucking thing.
White mediocrity will always win. This woman continues to get better with age and all she does is continue to lose high profile awards to younger shinier white artists who don’t have the range, artistry or talent.
How embarrassing for the Grammys.
This bitch is homophobic, transphobic, anti-mental health meds, dumb AF and dangerous. Yet, y’all give her a platform.
Meanwhile, have you paid the dozens (or more) writers who sent you invoices last year and earlier this year? Cause streets are saying, they’re still waiting.
At 40, I moved from Chicago to LA to start my film career. Two and a half years later, I co-wrote my first feature. At 45, I got repped and am currently working to seal my next feature deal, pitching more projects and found the best writing partners.
Life is just beginning.
And sadly, retraumatizes a survivor. This happened to her before at another publication. She bore her soul for nothing…again. This happens more often that not.
I’m sure that man is out there assaulting more Black women.
OK I lied. One more thing lol
@BET
do you have any plans on covering Cassie’s lawsuit against Diddy? I just searched your Twitter, didn’t see anything AND I searched both their names in your site and these are the first stories that popped up.
Am I missing something? Thanks!
These blogs are literally COPYING AND PASTING Twitter content pretending it’s theirs!
Lol normally I wouldn’t care cause it’s just social media and it’s not that serious BUT QUEEN Viola is in the thread giving dap and I’m like wait a fucking minute! You gonna credit me! Lmao
As someone who has worked in media, specifically Black media for years and watched its erosion over the years, this take ain’t it.
It’s truly just vibes. Lol
Posting up pictures of older legacy journalists who don’t even do court reporting ain’t it either. Like hush
No shade to Megan Cunniff, but this article is telling.
A white woman reporting on violence against famous Black women is more believed and protected in the Black community than Black women journalists. They aren’t afforded that same credibility, safety, or praise.
#misogynoir
He never will.
Yes, it is 2023, but in this age, we shouldn’t be complaining about why a white director won’t include our Black asses in their fictional worlds when we have MULTIPLE Black creatives who will and DO.
Can we FINALLY free ourselves from a white lens, PLEASE?!
Dear Black/POC celebs, especially those on the rise. Y'all white publicists are gonna fuck around & deny you opportunities with journalists of color that are actually riding for you in ways that mainstream media is not.
Sadly, you won't even know that it's happening. I'm tired
Yes, I’m happy for Greta and Barbie’s success! It’s needed BUT lets be clear about what women she’s talking about. AND let’s not act that this success will do anything for women of color. Was Julie this hyped for Joy Ride, The Woman King, The Little Mermaid, The Blackening, etc.
@noreaga
That’s your fucking problem. You are literally harming Black people and the culture but I guess as long as you make money and get views that’s all that matters. Weakest links. I swear.
I will never forgive myself for giving up on that story and that survivor. I’ll never make that same mistake again. And I plan on continuing to have my foot on the neck of every last publication and writer that tries it this time, with this case.
Had to delete my tweet bc Justin didn’t write the Haunted Mansion, Katie Dippold did lol
BUT I repeat: Justin is DGA and could be contractually obligated to be there. MEANWHILE, Greta co-wrote (and directed) Barbie, promoted her film during a WGA strike and y’all ain’t said shit
@WestminsterWAG
@MarinaPurkiss
Also, the Dumb bitch doesn’t even know what racism actually is. Lol actually leveraging mocking curtsying to be the same as systematic oppression—police violence, poverty, Jim Crow, or colonization—is truly something else lmao like white people are truly not OK.
This woman claimed she shared her script in July 2020, while Abbott started filming in September 2020.
Sooooo she thinks ABC secured all the monies, cast these actors, wrote the first few scripts, locked location, directors, etc in 3 months based on stealing her idea?
BYE.
We all deserve better. We deserve media outlets that aren’t in the pockets of wealthy influential people. We’re due for a
#MeToo
reckoning and these dusty ass websites shouldn’t be standing in the way of that happening.
Never forget that Nicki used her platform to LIE by saying Jennifer was white trying to invoke the history of “white women falsely accuse Black men of rape” to garner support from her fans.
ALL of this is disgusting. You shouldn’t be bribing and threatening rape survivors.
A woman who sued Nicki Minaj and her husband, Kenneth Petty, over Petty attempting to rape her in 1994 amended her complaint today to include evidence from original case.
Nicki is no longer a defendant, but claims against Petty are proceeding and Nicki is prominently mentioned.
Are these the marriages y’all keep shaming us for not having?
This man’s wife has cancer and he’s concerned with having his sexual needs met. Electric chair lol
Sadly, this happens more often than we’re willing admit. A lot of these husbands truly hate their wives.
LISTEN!
I’m getting tired of Olivia not being able to have a relationship. They got rid of Harry Connick Jr, she dumped Brian’s traumatized ass, she sabotaged her shit with Tucker and then they killed him off, she never took it there with Barba or the adoption lawyer (played by
Y'all's addiction to whiteness is utterly pathological LOL
You're "toning" yourself down, hiding your natural hair, won't play Jill Scott or say "finna" cause you worried about what someone who doesn't use a washrag thinks?
How dreadful.
She didn’t want the sex, she was traumatized. We spoke for weeks. I wrote for weeks. We followed up. My editors, who brought the story to me, were very cautious. Then we got legal involved.
The piece was done. The lawyers were prickly and strict to say the least. We made the changes we needed to. But someone tipped off the man before we were ready to get his statement. He had texted her knowing the story was happening. He knew people at the company.
It’s BEEN time that Black women and music had their own collective
#MeToo
reckoning cause Ashanti is just ONE story of how these powerful men of color have abused, raped, forced sex for success and access and nothing has happened. Hopefully now, more Black women will speak up
This “code” is literally how men will know their friends are rapists, predators, abusers, cheaters, absent parents, scammers, etc., and will sit and say NOTHING lol it’s pathological, I’m sorry.
Another amazing Black show (that didn’t center on whiteness) cancelled.
This industry is sending a daunting message about the future of diversity—or lack there of. There isn’t gonna be any characters of color/queer outside of the super safe, straight/cis/ white adjacent ones.
What FUCK is wrong with The Root?
Is Megan being accused of rape, gang rape, sex trafficking, coercion, physical violence and drugging people? No. So she CAN’T be the “female Diddy” you damn dummies.
Black media continues to be embarrassing.
Y’all Handmaid’s Tales heaux continue to tell on yourselves all while ignoring your own privilege in this industry AND the films that women of color write and direct. It’s always “sisterhood” when they want acknowledgment and a cheerleader but never return the favor. I’m good lol
@shawnbe01908179
How many comments are you gonna leave under this post? Lol Shawn, no one cares. Save your energy for all that anti vaccine covid conspiracy shit you tweet non stop. We’re over here celebrating Black people.
@WendyOsefo
@Fly_Sistah
While Mia is fucking for lobster, Robyn selling hats pretending that Juan ain’t cheating, Ashley looking for change in her couch and Gizelle searching for a sense of style and a storyline, you’re LIVING! Lol love to see it
My parents paid my rent—$550–for a year after grad school. My parents also gave me the money to move to LA to be a screenwriter…and I was 40. (Being a journalist is a low-paying job)
My parents believed in my dreams and I’m blessed that they had the money to give.
Because she kept trying to save white men (who were strangers) in the middle of an abandoned neighborhood instead of getting a hotel room downtown and minding her fucking business lol
Still enjoyed this movie tho! Lol but yeah…
@Variety
Are you mothafuckas crazy? That man who ABUSED her doesn’t need to be mentioned in a tweet about her death. Her legacy transcends a husband. Her life stood on its own. Delete this shit and start over.
@GlamazonJay
It’s funny right?! Cause they get soooo fucking buck and violent with Black women but are docile, stuttering and submissive to white men. Lol can’t take any of these nigcels seriously
I really want for Zendaya to use this time to work with a Black female director on a dope project. She deserves.
Also, I’m tired of Sam’s weird ass lol
Production on ‘EUPHORIA’ season 3 has been delayed indefinitely as Sam Levinson has yet to finish the scripts.
The actors have been given permission to take other acting jobs in the meantime.
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Ummm....not this hater being mad at Keanu for having a successful and long career and STILL BEING ALIVE.
Like all Keanu does is love his age-appropriate girlfriend, ride motorcycles, mind his business, make action movies, be thoughtful and be fine AF.
Are y'all OK?
“Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and Heath Ledger die, but Keanu Reeves still walks among us? River was a better actor than me; I was funnier. But I certainly held my own in our scenes—no small feat, when I look back decades later.”
The way that Black media has loved on LaLa, Christina M, Laz, Cardi, MJ, Gina T., Tessa, Jharell, Reagan, Emayatzy, Yaya, etc…should let you know the problem is Zoe, not us. Lol
Also, where is this same energy for the mostly-white Spanish speaking media? Cause baby…
So Zoe Saldana is the 2nd highest grossing actress worldwide...and highest grossing Black woman actor period. And all the African American pubs are silent. This is also why Black Latinos have difficulties in media. Accomplishments often go over looked.
Kendrick Lamar, Dave Free and ‘South Park’ co-creators Matt Stone & Trey Parker are set to produce an untitled comedy.
The film follows a Black man interning as a slave reenactor at a museum who discovers that his white girlfriend’s ancestors once owned his.
(Source: Deadline)