Can't Stop, Won't Stop: Black Representation Despite Black Erasure
Holding Court with Eboni K. Williams
Uppity Productions LLC
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Actor Faizon Love sues the film studios for literally erasing him and his co-star Kali Hawk from the movie poster of “Couples Retreat” in the international marketing campaign. We hear firsthand from Faizon about his bold and needed step to correct a long history of Black actors being deemed not marketable in international distribution. And we get into the nitty gritty of this issue with Dr. Jason Johnson, Professor of Journalism and Communication at Morgan State University who breaks down the false narratives at the root of Hollywood erasure in examples of John Boyega from Star Wars posters and others. Shout out to James Andrews for connecting us with Faizon!
Also on the Docket this week, we examine hate crimes against the LGBTQ community within our Black community exhibited by a recent assault visited on Laverne Cox. Our special guest David J. Johns the Exec Dir. of the National Black Justice Coalition and former Obama administration leader of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African-Americans gives advice on how to protect ourselves, our friends and loved ones who are too often targeted by ignorance. This episode was recorded on December 1st which is World AIDS Day, an opportunity for us all to break down stigmas so that we can continue to stop the spread of this disease that, like so many things, disproportionately affects Black Americans. #StopHIV
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| 0:00.0 | This is my voice. It can tell you a lot about me and I'm not changing it for anyone. |
| 0:08.0 | In NPR's Black Stories, Black Truths, you'll find a collection of NPR episodes centered on the Black experience. |
| 0:17.0 | Search NPR Black Truths, wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Ebony K Williams, your attorney at law and host. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to Holding Court, where we analyze the very latest legal headlines everybody's |
| 0:30.3 | already talking about. |
| 0:31.8 | We dig into how the courts impact the culture. |
| 0:34.4 | We break it all down for you. |
| 0:35.6 | And we go straight from Gaville to your news feed. |
| 0:38.2 | And I promise you this, y'all, every single week. |
| 0:40.6 | We're gonna keep it a buck, keep 100 right that's the Ross that's right |
| 0:44.0 | Ebony let's go ahead and hold court all right y'all so listen this week in |
| 0:50.5 | holding court coming out for Thanksgiving Dustin I listen so unconventional for |
| 0:56.2 | a Thanksgiving holiday but still so grateful right yeah I still a late |
| 1:00.4 | let's just gonna put that on the floor right now. It was a very small table, but it was still full and I'm thankful for that. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.0 | Listen, amen, and I hope everybody had a healthy and hearty Thanksgiving holiday and I ate as well. |
| 1:14.4 | And speaking of gratitude and the fact that our |
| 1:17.3 | Thanksgiving looked a bit different this year because of course, |
| 1:20.9 | COVID, right? |
| 1:22.3 | Coronavirus impacts us and impacts all that we love and care about. |
| 1:26.0 | And that includes many of us have folks, you know, that are behind bars these holiday seasons. |
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