Source: Arturo Holmes / Getty To many people, Monroe Alise seems to be having a moment. She is back on The Chi as Isis, offering audiences a fuller portrait of Black trans womanhood on one of television’s most important Black dramas. This month, she returned to Washington, D.C., the city that raised her, as a […]
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Source: Robin L Marshall / Getty So, according to British-Nigerian actor David Oyelowo, southern Black speech is just a Nigerian accent damaged by slavery. That’s fascinating, coming from a man whose people speak with the King’s English lodged in their throats and wearing the empire’s language like ancestral jewelry while pretending colonialism hasn’t shaped their […]
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