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In her memoir 'Wannabe,' Aisha Harris examines how '90s pop culture shaped her

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The Scarcity Mindset of Black Critics

I count 2016 as kind of this turning point in mainstream black pop culture where you have everything from Atlanta premiering insecure premieres that year lemonade Rihanna's anti-black campaign. And I think that because we have so many more people working in Hollywood and we have soMany different types of representation now, especially of black art, we shouldn't necessarily need to be as concerned about what is good for black people or bad for black people. Like I want to focus on is this good art period. Some people, especially when you're talking about beloved property like the little mermaid, for instance, with a hally Bailey. Oh, no. Yeah, I did not write a kinds

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