- 1. Gina Prince-Bythewood On Directing Viola Davis In Her New Film "The Woman King," The Tale Of An All-Female Army In West Afric
- (Movies)
- ... serving as inspiration for the fierce Dora Milaje warriors in Black Panther. “I felt like I was in a world I’d never seen before, meeting these women who I’ve never seen on screen before,” the 53-year-old ...
- Created on 07 September 2022
- 2. Keke Palmer Scores Big For Black Women And Liberation In "Alice" Now Streaming On Deman
- (Movies)
- ... Bennet, played by Johnny Lee Miller (Settlers, Elementary). What follows are the familiar scenes of fearful Black people cowering under the brunt of punishment devices and iron rods. After a violent exchange ...
- Created on 08 April 2022
- 3. Michaela Coel Destroys R*pe Culture in Uplifting Emmy Acceptance Speech Dedicated to Survivors of Sexual Assault
- (TV)
- ... wrote, co-directed, and starred in the 12-episode sexual assault drama, is the first Black woman to ever win in this category. She even received a congratulatory stamp of approval from the queen of TV ...
- Created on 20 September 2021
- 4. No One Knows Who Michaela Coel Has Been Cast As in The Black Panther Sequel, But Twitter Has Some Theories
- (Movies)
- Michaela Coel joins the Black Panther family as… well, we don’t know who yet. What we do know is that Variety reported Coel is on set at Atlanta Pinewood Studios filming the sequel Black Panther: Wakanda ...
- Created on 22 July 2021
- 5. Reclaiming The Lens: 10 Women Filmmakers Spearheading The New Wave in Black Cinema
- (Movies)
- Though the '90s is often referred to as the Golden Age of Black cinema, men were overwhelmingly at the helm of many of the groundbreaking films that came to fruition throughout the decade. Even cult-classics ...
- Created on 22 April 2021
- 6. Female-Led Indie Movies Dominated Releases This Past Year: Here Are Ten You Should Watch (Without Going To The Theater)
- (Movies)
- ... men. You can watch Promising Young Woman on Prime Video and YouTube Movies. Time For those among us who prefer fact over fiction, Time is the ideal documentary. Presented in black and white, this monochromatic ...
- Created on 16 February 2021
- 7. Jane Fonda: A Rebel With a Cause. Exclusive BUST Interview
- (Feminism)
- ... in a fashion nothing short of iconic: sporting a blazing red trench coat and black-and-white checked cap, her hands zip-tied behind her back with her head held high. Fonda was hauled off the Capitol steps ...
- Created on 07 January 2021
- 8. Thank you, Stacey Abrams
- (Feminism)
- Back in our fall 2020 issue, Stacey Abrams said that everything would be ok. “Things are changing,” she said. “Trust me.” Now, with Rev. Raphael Warnock—Georgia’s first Black senator—declared the ...
- Created on 06 January 2021
- 9. What You Should Know About Black August
- (Feminism)
- If you haven’t heard about Black August, it’s a month that commemorates the Black revolutionaries who dedicated their lives to fighting white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism. It began in the ...
- Created on 07 August 2020
- 10. Hey 19: The Wild True Story Of America's First Women-Led Terrorist Grou
- (General)
- ... including the armored trucks that ferried cash to and from a bank. They were there to help “the Family,” a group of self-styled revolutionaries who robbed the rich and powerful to fund radical black ...
- Created on 30 July 2020
- 11. "We Are The Radical Monarchs" Documentary Is Proof That The Future Is In Black and Brown Girl
- (Movies)
- Right now the future is so uncertain, but if nothing else it most definitely is in the hands of Black and Brown girls. Monday night, PBS POV, in its 33rd season, aired the 2019 documentary We Are ...
- Created on 20 July 2020
- 12. "It Can't Be Over" Shows SUSU Is Just Getting Started: BUST Premie
- (Music)
- ... Liza’s psychedelic sensibility and Kia’s slow-burn aesthetic. Of the band, Liza says, “We aren’t shy about being black women in Rock and Roll. There is an aliveness, an awareness, and a spirituality to ...
- Created on 16 July 2020
- 13. 8 Incredible People to Replace Racist Statues With
- (Living)
- ... son, making her the first black woman to win a case against a white man. The statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside the American Museum of Natural History has also been ordered to be removed. We think that ...
- Created on 24 June 2020
- 14. Allies, Take Notes: Jane Fonda’s History of Activism From Civil Rights to Today
- (Feminism)
- ... would stand in protest of big oil and climate change. Her activist work did not start and end there, however. Fonda has been an ally for numerous causes, there to listen to and amplify Black and PoC activists' ...
- Created on 03 June 2020
- 15. "The Photograph" Puts the Radical Simplicity of Black Millennial Love in Focu
- (Movies)
- The Photograph, starring Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield, is the first Black romantic film of the decade—premiering on Valentine’s Day, smack dab in the middle of Black History Month. Setting the tone ...
- Created on 14 February 2020
- 16. Megan Thee Stallion and Normani's "Diamonds" Delivers The Badass Duo We Deser
- (Music)
- ... casting and plot. Think Black Panther and Suicide Squad (okay, even if it wasn’t fantastic). Though we will have to wait and see what Birds of Prey has to show, for now, the soundtrack seems to be giving ...
- Created on 13 January 2020
- 17. "Seberg" Doesn't Get Jean Seberg's Story Quite Ri
- (Movies)
- ... of her affair with activist Hakim Jamal (Anthony Mackie), and her affiliation with the Black Panthers. The film frames Seberg as a martyr by opening with a scene from Otto Preminger’s Saint Joan, in ...
- Created on 13 December 2019
- 18. The Oscars Almost Got It All Right, Except...
- (Entertainment)
- ... and Hannah Beachler both of “Black Panther.” And overall female visibility was incredibly strong, with Kate Biscoe and Patricia DeHaney’s makeup and hairstyling win for “Vice” and Rayka Zehtabchi and ...
- Created on 25 February 2019
- 19. 4 Black Women Who Changed The World
- (Feminism)
- In honor of Black History Month, F Yeah History is celebrating 4 Black women who changed history. SHIRLEY CHISHOLM Before there was Hilary Clinton or Barack Obama, there was Shirley Chisholm. ...
- Created on 04 February 2019
- 20. Three Must-Watch Speeches From The Golden Globes
- (Entertainment)
- ... to have awards shows like last night. Several films with diverse cast and directors of color will get nominations (BlacKkKlansman, Crazy Rich Asians, Black Panther, etc.) but will walk away empty-handed, ...
- Created on 07 January 2019
