Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Wednesday, pop culture icon William Shatner, Star Trek‘s Captain James Tiberius Kirk, explained the enormity of seeing the earth from a suborbital flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepherd space craft. Part of what he said when he returned from 66 miles up got lost in all of the news […]
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Popular Culture
‘I am that character’: New Marvel heroes battle underrepresentation of Native Americans in comics
By Johnny Messiha and McKenzie Allen-Charmley | ( Cronkite News) | – FLAGSTAFF – Asgard, Wakanda, Xandar and other intergalactic empires are well-known to comic book fans, but a new comic is hoping to bring readers back to Earth to learn about Indigenous heroes. Penned by Native American artists and writers, “Marvel’s Voices: Indigenous Voices […]
Remembering Stan Lee
“There is only One in the universe who is All-Powerful, and his only weapon is . . . Love.”
For World Poetry Day, Verses Straight From Persia’s Heart
By Salam Aleik | ( GlobalVoices.org) | – – How might someone in Tajikistan, the only Persian-speaking republic in the former Soviet Union, describe a beautiful and lively night spent in the company of family and friends? Perhaps he or she would use the word dilafruz, which literally means ‘firing the heart’. Azerbaijani folk art […]
Why Black Panther’s Wakanda Is the Black Utopia We’ve Been Waiting For
By Ingrid LaFleur | ( Yes! Magazine) | – – Before the film was released, the nation of Wakanda was taking shape in our minds. Ingrid LaFleur posted Feb 07, 2018 “When I wondered if imagination could be necessary for the revolution and transformation, you said yes, you said our dreams and visions matter, they […]
Black Panther: Honoring the legacy of Black style
by Henry Navarro Delgado | (The Conversation) | – – One knows that something is touching a nerve in North American culture when a foreign luxury car company wants a piece of the pie. The movie Black Panther is that type of archetypical popular culture milestone. The release of Black Panther provides the opportunity to […]
The hidden superpower of ‘Black Panther’: Scientist role models
At a time of a war on science, scientific role models are more important than ever #blackpanther #marvel
Alt-Right Trolls Try to Tank ‘Black Panther’ Score on Rotten Tomatoes
TeleSur | – – Facebook seems to have deleted the racist, sexist group’s page while the popular movie-ranking site announced its plan as hate speech. An alt-right group is trying to tank the ratings for “Black Panther” movie on Rotten Tomatoes website as the movie continues to receive glowing reviews from critics after its premier […]
After Golden Globes Speech (Video), Oprah said open to Presidential Run
Golden Globes/ Oprah Winfrey | (Video Clip) | – – Amy Kaufman of the LA Times wrote that she asked Stedman if Oprah would be open to a presidential bid and he said, “absolutely she would.” I asked Stedman if @oprah would run for President. "It's up to the people. She would absolutely do it." […]
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