This is a word, a podcast from Slate, I'm your host, Jason Johnson.

Four years, movie lovers knew exactly what was going to happen to the black character

in a horror film.

They were either going to die first, die in some terrible way, or sacrifice their lives

so that the white people could survive.

But now, African American characters and artists are flipping the scripts by writing the

scripts and thriving in the world of horror.

Obviously, we are so blessed to have a Jordan Peel, who is such a great artist who happens

to be one of our own.

He's black and he's horror.

I mean, how lucky are we, right?

So as long as Jordan Peel is making films, black horror will be a conversation.

The black horror renaissance, coming up on a word with me, Jason Johnson.

Stay with us.

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