It’s a new month with a whole new set of trailers! Summer is upon us folks and the prospects are looking really good!! We got a nice mix of final seasons, period dramas, anti-heroes, some history lessons, action, and even a little child’s play!! Check out this week’s trailer below:
Origin (Streaming on Hulu-June 10th)
Season 3- Bridgerton, Part 2 (Streaming on Netflix-June 13th)
WondLa (Streaming on Apple TV+ – June 28th)
Season 4- The Umbrella Academy (Streaming on Netflix-August 8th)
Harold and the Purple Crayon (In theaters August 2024)
Excited to share another upcoming event that I will be participating in this Thursday with my friends at Suffolk Public Library!!
Suffolk Discovers: Afrofuturism
Afrofuturism expresses notions of Black identity, agency and freedom through art, creative works and activism that envision liberated futures for Black life. With musicians such as Sun Ra, Parliament, and Janelle Monáe, visual artists like Wangechi Mutu, and authors such as Octavia Butler, Afrofuturism imagines the potential of African diasporic futures without the effects of colonialism, capitalism, and racism among other things. In recent work like the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Black Panther movies though, there is a strain of doubt introduced into the hopefully utopian vision of Afrofuturist societies such as Wakanda.
Thursday, April 18th, 2024, 6-7:30 pm
North Suffolk Library (Conference Room), 2000 Bennetts Creek Park Road Suffolk, VA 23435
During the panel discussion we will explore the following questions/thoughts:
This week’s line-up is definitely a memorable one!! Everything from the wildest party of the 90s in the South to the Martha’s Vineyard experience to tapping into one’s emotions. Lots of exciting material!! I can definitely see a few watch parties in the making!
Check out this week’s trailers below:
Homicide: New York (Streaming on Netflix-March 20th)
Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told (Streaming on Hulu– March 21st)
Season 2-Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard (Streaming on Bravo-March 24th)
A Gentleman in Moscow (Streaming on Paramount +-March 29th)
Season 2-Loot (Streaming on Apple TV+ -April 3rd)
Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story (Streaming on Hulu-April 26th)
On Tuesday, I will be participating in a roundtable discussion on “Medicine, Marginalization, and Resistance: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.” As a 2023 Humanities Research Center (HRC) Fellow at VCU, the goal of the fellowship is to “foster intellectual exchange and to enhance the quality of research at VCU by exposing faculty to different perspectives and methodologies.”
The event takes place on March 12, 2024, 3-4:30 pm on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University [Virginia Room B-University Student Commons].
Join us for a roundtable discussion of medicine, marginalization and resistance with the HRC’s residential fellows Grace Gipson, Adin Lears, Gabriela León-Pérez, and Victoria Tucker. The fellows will discuss their work during their 2023-24 residency, exploring health humanities topics ranging from Black womanhood and disability in Marvel Comics’ Misty Knight, conceptions of medicine and the body in late medieval England, the health and well-being of Indigenous immigrants from Latin America to the US, and the experiences and contributions of Black nurses in Virginia during the transition from segregation to desegregation.
The presentations will be followed by a panel Q&A. All are welcome!
Cover Art for Heroes for Hire #4 (May 2011), Art by Doug Braithwaite
Misty Knight (played by Simone Missick) in the television series Marvel’s “Luke Cage”
During the roundtable, I will be able to discuss one of the chapters in my book project on Marvel Comics “Misty Knight” discussing Blackness, womanhood, and disability.
If you are in the Richmond Area come and check it out!! You can register for the event here!
We are making our way through February, can’t believe we are pretty much half way through the month! Nice selection film and television headed your way next month!! Check them out below:
Kung Fu Panda 4 (In theaters March 8th)
Apples Never Fall (Streaming on Peacock March 14th)
Season 2-Invincible-Part 2 (Streaming on Prime Video March 14th)
Marvel Animation’s X-Men ’97 (Streaming on Disney+ March 20th)
Palm Royale (Streaming on Apple TV+ March 20th)
Shirley (Streaming on Netflix March 22nd)
We Were the Lucky Ones (Streaming on Hulu March 28th)
Black Future Feminist 