Zoe Saldana wants us all to move on from the controversy surrounding the movie “Nina,” but she’s made it a bit difficult with her latest comments.
Saldana has defended taking the role throughout the film’s rocky production history, and now that the film has finally been released (to largely negative reviews), the actress still doesn’t seem to have internalized some of the valid criticisms of the movie and her casting in the title role.
This is what Saldana has consistently failed to understand about the outcry over her casting: The criticism wasn’t a challenge to her blackness or her talent. It was a challenge to an industry that constantly ignores black woman who look like Nina Simone.
Imagine holding a cube of ice with no way to relinquish it, or being unable to remove a knife that’s constantly piercing an open wound.
These are some of the ways Marie Ojiambo described the “excruciating” pain of suffering from sickle cell disease, a disorder that causes red blood cells to change shape in ways that block proper blood flow and oxygen from traveling throughout the body. There are millions of black people around the world who are disproportionately affected by this disease.
World Sickle Cell Awareness Day, which was on Sunday, is meant to raise public knowledge and understanding of the crippling condition. In effort to carry on with that mission, Pfizer shared news with reporters at a roundtable discussion on June 6 in New York about promising new research it has conducted that could help millions of sickle cell patients around the globe. But it requires black participation and, frankly, there's not enough.
These little black girls are beyond magical.
On Saturday, Debbie Allen Dance Academy shared this awesome video of little girls practicing an African dance number before the school’s spring recital.
The video has reached over 100,000 views on Instagram and two million on Facebook. As the Instagram caption states, these students “can’t stop DANCIN!”
You go girls!
Big Sean wants to “Change the World” by helping to alleviate student homelessness.
On behalf of his Sean Anderson Foundation, the Detroit-native has committed $25,000 to Wayne State University’s HIGH (Helping Individuals Go Higher) program to provide “short-term support” to students who struggle to meet the needs of foods, shelter and childcare, according to the school’s website.
“We see the HIGH Program as an important component of ensuring success at Wayne State, and we are proud to help strengthen its mission,” Myra Anderson, president of the Sean Anderson Foundation and Sean’s mother, said in a press release. “We aim to boost graduation rates at the university by providing support to students facing hardship.”
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