Watching “Lovecraft Country” as a resident alien

As someone who grew up in an independent, black majority country with black and brown prime ministers and even a black female prime minister, who’s never had to live from birth with the knowledge that my skin marks me as other, a threat, or grants those in power license to kill me for just existing while black, I’ve had to learn through mediatized images of black death the everpresent horror my black brothers and sisters in this country I now live know intimately.

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Black on Screen: My Juneteenth 2020 Binges

This year for Juneteenth, perhaps in the wake of the George Floyd murder and the uprisings that have followed, a number of streaming services posted “Black Stories’ selections. Here are some thoughts on some of the shows that I watched last weekend.

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