Movies – ConStar Universe

11/13/2018

2018 Holiday RomComs Starring People of Color

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Here’s your PoC holiday calendar of sorts — a list of the 2018 holiday romcoms with PoC leads. Have a holly, jolly, highly melanated Christmas.

12/23/2014

I Was Quoted in Bitch Magazine on the New "Annie" Movie

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A while back, I wrote this article on Annie for Black Girl Nerds (still super proud of it’s title), then Emily Hashimoto of Bitch Magazine asked for more of my thoughts on having a black girl lead in a movie, which I happily provided. Here’s the quote: “Having more images of [young women of color] […]

11/22/2014

Gina Prince-Bythewood on Beyond the Lights and her start in television (I get a covert shout out!)

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Shannon M Houston, writer for Paste Magazine, got to interview Love & Basketball writer/director Gina Prince-Bythewood about her latest movie Beyond the Lights. Before the interview, she asked me on Twitter what I would ask Gina. I knew that she wrote for A Different World at the beginning of her career, so I wanted to know […]