Tag: Black Girl
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September’s New TV Shows, From ‘Daryl Dixon’ to ‘The Wheel of Time’
Can you smell the pumpkin spice? Autumn is in the air, and the television landscape turns appropriately spooky for September. Things kick off on Apple TV+ with Lakeith Stanfield’s fantasy-horror series The Changeling followed by The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon on AMC. The theme continues with Castlevania: Nocturne, the sequel to Netflix’s original Castlevania series.…
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‘Is This a Nightmare?’: Shock and Outrage as South African Film Board Rejects Groundbreaking African Classic ‘Black Girl’ Over ‘Hate Speech’
The Joburg Film Festival defiantly went ahead with a screening of Ousmane Sembène’s “Black Girl” on Thursday, refusing to bow to political pressure after South Africa’s Film and Publications Board (Fpb) denied it permission to hold a public screening of the Senegalese director’s groundbreaking debut.In a decision that shocked festival organizers and many of the…