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Master P Reveals Plans To Own
Oprah Winfrey Memes Dubbed ‘Digital Black- Face’ After Epic Meghan And Harry Interview
An HBCU: ‘This Message Is All
About Educating Our People’
Social media users are being warned not to share Oprah re- action memes from her historic chat with the former Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as they’re engaging in ‘digital blackface’.
While most of us were pre- occupied with Harry and Meghan’s major tea spilling session, social media users were busy responding in their favourite way: with a meme frenzy.
As countless memes and GIFs began flood social feeds after the couple’s interview aired, human rights and social justice group The Slow Factory thought it relevant to remind people what performing digital blackface looks like.
“Since the #Meghanand- Harry interview on Oprah, we’ve been seeing a lot of digi- tal blackface infractions with a few of Oprah’s reaction gifs and images going viral, but that doesn’t mean you should be using them,” the group
The recent highlighting of Historically Black Colleges and Universities has led many to learn that most of these schools were founded on land grants provided by the government during the Reconstruction Era. Realiz- ing this has motivated Mas- ter P to take matters into his own hands to change the fu- ture.
Master P took to Insta- gram where he revealed his life goal has now changed. “I used to want to own an NBA teambutnowIwanttoowna HBCU,” opens his video’s caption.
“This message is all about educating our people,” Mas- ter P said in the video. “Any- body that’s listening to this and has a business, I want y’all to join this movement with me. We need to make sure our kids get educated the way other cultures are edu- cated.”
The spotlight has been re- focused on HBCUs in recent years. Michael B. Jordan created a basketball invita- tional to showcase talent at the institutions and the NBA has put an emphasis on sup-
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porting them. During the NBA All-Star Game, the league generated $3 million that will be used to promote these colleges and universi- ties.
“It was part of the reason why we’re here in Atlanta,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said, per CNN. At- lanta is home to a host of HBCUs including the ac- claimed Atlanta University Center (AUC) which consists of legendary schools More- house College, Spelman Col- lege, and Clark Atlanta University. “This was an op- portunity to focus on the HBCUs,” Silver added.
OPRAH MEME
shared on Instagram.
After defining the term dig-
ital blackface, the group went on to explain why circulating such memes can be damaging.
“While seemingly harmless, the problem with digital black-
face is that it often reinforces negative stereotypes about Black folks such as they’re ag- gressive, loud, sassy, and sim- ply here for your consumption and entertainment,” they wrote.
Tiffany Haddish To Produce And Star In ‘Mystery Girl’
Tiffany Haddish is set to star in Mystery Girl, the Netflix feature adaptation based on the Dark Horse comic of the same name that was created by Paul Tobin and Alberto Albur- querque. Haddish, under her She Ready Productions label, will produce the film, which is being directed by McG (The Babysitter).
Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg will produce the pic for Dark Horse Enter- tainment, which currently has a first-look deal with the streamer and has previously collaborated
TIFFANY HADDISH
on the action-comedy series Umbrella Academy and Jonas Åkerlund’s feature Polar.
In Mystery Girl, Haddish
will star as Trine who, living off the grid in Los Angeles as a street psychic, has no memory of who she is or where she came from but is guided by an omnis- cient VOICE in her head that knows everyone’s business and everyone’s darkest secrets. When a down on his luck LAPD officer, Cooper, seeks out Trine in hopes that she’ll help him crack a case, the two are framed for murder and must work together to clear their names and solve the ultimate mystery: the one behind Mys- tery Girl herself.
Kevin Hart Sony Drama ‘Fatherhood’ Heading To Netflix For Summer Release
Sony and Higher Ground Productions will have its Kevin Hart drama Father- hood released on Netflix on Friday June 18, just before Fa- ther’s Day.
Note this is a licensing deal, not a full on acquisition of the movie by Netflix. It’s a similar deal that Sony has cut with Hulu on Happiest Season and AppleTV+ on Greyhound. Es- sentially, Netflix has licensed worldwide rights, except China which Sony will keep. Mean-
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while, Sony will keep the IP and all transactional home en- tertainment windows outside of Netflix.
Fatherhood, directed by Paul Weitz, is based on the book Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss & Love by Matthew Logelin. Based on a true story, the pic follows Hart as a single dad who brings up his baby girl after the unexpected death of his wife a day after their daugh- ter’s birth.
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