Life Aint Funny: It's a Survival Story in Disguise
Life is too real to be a comedy.
Eddie Murphy
In 'Boomerang' and Reality, Black Women Are Allowed Beauty But Not Power
Why Black women’s power is still misunderstood: a critique of romantic ideals rooted in Eddie Murphy's 90s comedy.
5 Movies that are Blueprints for Allyship Between Black and White Men
These fictional characters were ten toes down for each other
Doggyland Ain’t Daycare — Meet the Man Behind Snoop’s Kid Show Empire
How Claude Brooks turned Uncle Snoop into a supremely cooler Mr. Rogers
Understanding Richard Pryor's Use of the N-Word
Pryor's use of the word represented something valiant
An Oral History of the Coming To America TV Show You Never Knew About
A white-hot Black comedian. An old-guard White showrunner. What could go wrong? Everything.
Harlem Nights Is Comedy’s Most Overrated Cult Classic
How revisionist history saved Eddie Murphy’s 1989 all-star gangster flop