Slate Race and Identity

Slate culture writer, Aisha Harris talks to actress Joy Bryant about her role as the groundbreaking attorney Eleanor Holmes Norton, in the new Amazon series, Good Girls Revolt.Check out:Slate’s The Good Girls Revolt Trailer Shows the Dangers of Sexism and Sort-of-True Stories Joy Bryant in Refinery29: Girl, You BeautifulJoy Bryant’s Lenny Letter: Stop Telling Me I Should Have KidsAisha’s conversation with Moonlight Filmmaker Barry JenkinsSlate Plus members: Tell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/SM2879949563Email: represent@slate.comFacebook: Slate RepresentTwitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyleProduction by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slate culture writer, Aisha Harris talks to filmmaker Barry Jenkins about his much buzzed about new film, Moonlight. And Latino USA producer Antonia Cereijido returns to talk season 3 of Jane the Virgin. Check out:AV Club’s Jane The Virgin gets used to the new normal with another powerful chapterAisha’s How Barry Jenkins’ Medicine for Melancholy Laid the Groundwork for His Gorgeous, Haunting MoonlightA.O. Scott’s Review: ‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie?Master P on his contribution to Solange's new album, "A Seat at the Table"Indiewire’s Naomie Harris On ‘Moonlight,’ The One Role She Never Thought She Could HandleThe Black Film Canon: The 50 greatest movies by black directorsTell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/representEmail: represent@slate.comFacebook: Slate RepresentTwitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyleProduction by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slate culture writer, Aisha Harris talks to film/tv writer, Patricia Resnick, about working in Hollywood in the 70s and 80s, ageism and sexism in the industry, and the legacy of one of the most celebrated feminist comedies of all time, 9 to 5.Check out:-Patricia Resnick in the Hollywood Reporter, weighing in on the #OscarsSoWhite controversy-Aisha’s interview with Lily Tomlin on the art of maintaining a long, successful career-Lily Tomlin on what makes 9 to 5 a special movie-Patricia Resnick’s 1992 filmStraight TalkTell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/representEmail: represent@slate.comFacebook: Slate RepresentTwitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyleProduction by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slate’s culture writer Aisha Harris and chief political correspondent Jamelle Bouie discuss the very controversial awards season contender, Nate Parker’s the Birth of a Nation.Check out what we mentioned:-Aisha’s piece in Slate, “In the Birth of a Nation, Women Don’t Participate in Nat Turner’s Rebellion. History Tells Us Otherwise.”-Former President George W. Bush at the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture-Good Morning America:Birth of a Nation Star Nate Parker Speaks Out-The 2003 filmNat Turner: A Troublesome PropertyFor more Nate Parker rape allegation coverage we recommend:-About Race podcast: Cold Empathy for Nate Parker with Roxane Gay-Ebony: “Nate Parker on Campus Incident, Consent and Toxic Male Culture”-Slate: “Nate Parker Seems Like He’s Had It With Talking About Rape”Bonus: The 50 greatest movies by black directors. Tell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/representEmail: represent@slate.comFacebook: Slate RepresentTwitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyleProduction by Veralyn Williams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slate culture writer Aisha Harris talks to former Gawker editor–turned–TV writer Cord Jefferson, writer for the dearly departed the Nightly Show and upcoming Season 2 of Master of None.Check out:-Cord Jefferson on NBC: “When will moderate whites condemn dangerous White Culture?”-“The Racism Beat: What it’s like to write about hate over and over and over”-Will Smith’s best performance in The Fresh Prince of Bel-AirTell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/representEmail: represent@slate.comFacebook: Slate RepresentTwitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyleProduction by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slate culture writer, Aisha Harris talks to actor Joe Seo about his new film, Spa Night, and Vulture writer Alex Jung comes on to chat race and class in Season 3 of Transparent.Check out:-Radio Raheem’s “love, hate” monologue in Do the Right Thing-Will & Grace scene about the 2016 election-Fences teaser trailer-Alex Jung’s interview with Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-BridgeTell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/representEmail: represent@slate.comFacebook: Slate RepresentTwitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyleProduction by Veralyn WilliamsRepresent is brought to you by Upstanders, a new podcast from Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Rajiv Chandrasekaran. Hear stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things to create positive change in their communities. Listen and subscribe to Upstanders on iTunes now.And by Denial. From the screenwriter of The Hours and The Reader comes the true story of one woman’s court battle for historical truth against a Holocaust denier. Starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Wilkinson. Denial: Now playing in select theaters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slate Culture Writer, Aisha Harris talks to writer/director Justin Tipping about his new movie, Kicks which tells the story of 15 year old Brandon, who goes on a dangerous mission through Oakland to retrieve his “fresh to death” pair of Air Jordans, after they were stolen. Tell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/representEmail: represent@slate.comFacebook: Slate RepresentTwitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyleProduction by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slate Culture Writer, Aisha Harris talks to writer-director Paul Haggis, of 2005’s Crash, one the most derided Best Picture Oscar winners, ever.Check out what the critics had to say:-Worst Movie Of The Decade by Ta-Nehisi Coates-Crash and Fizzle by David EdelsteinTell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/representEmail: represent@slate.comFacebook: Slate RepresentTwitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyleProduction by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slate Culture Writer, Aisha Harris sits down with actress, filmmaker, and activist Kamala Lopez, about her new documentary, Equal Means Equal, which advocates hard for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment; and talks Donald Glover and his new off-kilter half-hour comedy on FX, Atlanta with Kara Brown, staff writer at Jezebel.Check out:-Donald Glover’s Community by Rembert Browne-Solange Knowles essay: “And do you belong I do?” I do.-Paperboy song from Atlanta-How Amos ’n’ Andy Paved the Way for Black Stars on TV-Black List Live! in LA Saturday, 9/17 Tell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/representEmail: represent@slate.comFacebook: Slate RepresentTwitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyleProduction by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slate Culture Writer, Aisha Harris talks to writer/actor and transgender activist, Jen Richards, about Magic Mike star Matt Bomer being cast in the role of a transgender sex worker in the upcoming film, Anything.Check out: -Emmy nominated, Her Story-Mark Ruffalo Addresses Concerns Over Trans Insensitivity on TwitterTell a friend to subscribe! Share this link: megaphone.link/representEmail: represent@slate.comFacebook: Slate RepresentTwitter: @SlateRepresent, @craftingmystyleProduction by Veralyn Williams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices