In the 1980s, there were only 63 Black films by, for, or about Black Americans. But in the 1990s, that number quadrupled, with 220 Black films making their way to cinema screens nationwide. What sparked this “Black New Wave?” Who blazed this path for contemporaries like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Jordan Peele? And how did these films transform American culture as a whole? Presenting The Class of 1989, a new limited-run series from pop culture critics Len Webb and Vincent Williams, hosts ...
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With our Survivor: Cambodia Patron rewatch in the books (check out the finale for free here!), we thought we'd dial up Bestie of the Show Stephen Fishbach to make him dredge up the memories he's spent eight years trying to bury. Stephen looks back at Cambodia's place in the evolution of Survivor and if/how it changed the game, Survivor as a TV product and a vehicle for storytelling in this 'new era', his own complicated feelings about his seasons and sharing them with his family, and pays tribute to the late Keith Nale.
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