'The Blackening' aims to combine comedy and cultural healing with characters that go beyond 'the Black guy always dies first' Hollywood stereotype
It was also a chance to let the rest of the world enter an environment with Black characters that go beyond "the Black guy always dies first" Hollywood stereotype.
The film premieres in theaters on Friday, ahead of Monday's Juneteenth holiday celebrating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. New York University professor Shatima Jones told Reuters “The Blackening” shows Black people as human while blackness “kind of becomes its own character.”
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