Associate Professor of Communication Media Studies @ Fordham U; Scholar of Black popular media, television film, digital culture, and celebrity

Joined April 2009
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I wrote this piece 3 wks ago to reflect on and try to make sense of TV’s relationship to Blackness in the past, present, and future. So much has happened. My heart aches for Elijah McClain. Justice for Breonna. Tele-visionary Blackness publicbooks.org/tele-visiona…… via @publicbooks

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…is Amy Adams ok? Why is her performance so disoriented and muted in Cape Fear? Her intuitive good acting skills have really decreased since 2020 😭 #capefear
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There are very much interesting things to say about liminality, visuality, and blackness (I have been working on this a bit)…this take is not one of them!
Backrooms is racist film. It’s technically brilliant, but racist. And it’s a shame during a time where Black studies is being eliminated on college campuses because I fear people are overlooking the obvious tropes and racist callbacks the film ridiculously displays.
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RT @PanasonicDX4500: I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress e…
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Damn, Elisabeth Moss still plays the heck out of June…gave me chills. And Lucy Halliday has been a formidable scene partner for her! What a solid first season 👏🏾 #thetestaments
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#OffCampus hasn’t even been out a full two weeks and stans are already harassing the real-life girlfriend of the lead actor. Stanning can be so toxic and problematic. Whatever happened to just watching and enjoying TV, and leaving the folks who make it alone?
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Nika King reacts to her lack of screentime in ‘Euphoria’ Season 3: “My mom over here clowning me, she said the internet waited all this time for me to just say one line… three years”
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Noah on Night Shift: “Somebody wrote ‘Noah Wyle is so aggressively annoying and patronizing and pretentious’…that’s all true & I still don’t think you need more night shift” love his sass 🤣 Also adds that the success of the show shouldn’t be ‘dissipated too quickly.’
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Crazy that black actors just have to take a barrage of online racial abuse if they want to be a part of some projects
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Elon Musk Attacks 'The Odyssey' Again and Claims Christopher Nolan Cast Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy Because 'He Wants Awards' variety.com/2026/more/news/e…
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I kinda hate when writers seem to detest their characters. It feels like Sam Levinson has so much resentment for everyone on Euphoria…dude, go to therapy!
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What’s not really being talked about in these convos about AI in college is the tension faculty feel b/w seeing admin giving a permission structure for the use of these tools at the same time that they rail against grade inflation. You can’t have both!
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When his publicist tells him to watch this back, he’ll realize it was such an unforced error.
Paul Anthony Kelly when asked what his favorite Beyonce song is: "I don't know. I'm a metal head." #MetGala
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NEW: This past Saturday, Democrat Quentin Wiltz was elected mayor of Pearland, Texas, FLIPPING a Republican-leaning suburb BLUE. This is huge. Congrats, Mayor-elect Wiltz!
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Isn’t gauche a word in a T Swift song? Just saying! 😝
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Day One Fromily! 🙂‍↕️
collider.com/from-amazon-mgm… Who’s been here since the beginning? #FROMily
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This is a good reminder that John Roberts is exactly who John Lewis told us he was.
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How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel an ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.
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#Jeopardy champion Jamie Ding slams ICE after his 31-day winning streak ends and says "I hope that immigrants can be seen in a positive light" under Trump's federal government. “I kept hearing how [my run] was bringing people together, and I love that very much. I’ve heard people say, ‘It’s nice to have something positive on TV!’ As an immigrant and a person of color, I was able to become part of the history of an American institution. ‘Jeopardy!’ really is an institution and America’s turning 250 years old and the federal government is going after immigrants in a way unlike anything that we’ve seen in the recent past. So I hope that immigrants can be seen in a positive light too.” (via People) variety.com/2026/tv/news/jeo…
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It’s crazy that they made a book with all of the correct answers in it
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Lack of access to cable TV! Tubi comes closest to presenting a degree of discoverability of old media across taste cultures. But also lack of family viewing! Going to Blockbuster and picking out titles that were for you as a kid and also sitting through the parental choices too.
Film literacy among young people is at an all time low. My gen z students are shockingly unfamiliar with many key landmarks of modern cinema that were released in the 1990s
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Biden’s health issues were perceived as a secret, a deception where lack of access was an affront to the politico class. Trump is transparent in the sense that stuff is always already exposed. It doesn’t matter that he looks/acts like this bc there’s access. Which is obscene!
Trump fell asleep again during a live televised meeting. If Joe Biden had done that, the media would have treated it like a national emergency and run wall-to-wall panic coverage for a week. But when Trump does it, they look the other way because the clown show keeps their ratings up and their pockets full. The hypocrisy is disgraceful. The media failed the country, and they know it.
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