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huffpost.com | Njera Perkins
It’s hard to imagine what Black gay storytelling in Hollywood today would look like without “Noah’s Arc.”Twenty years ago, the trailblazing series premiered on Logo TV, the first queer-focused commercial cable network, offering viewers a rare glimpse into Black and brown gay life.
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huffpost.com | Njera Perkins
In a year that’s felt like the hands of time are slowly ticking backward — with the anti-diversity, equity and inclusion political climate reversing corporate promises in a post-George Floyd world andHollywood backtracking on diversity programs to appease Donald Trump’s second presidential term — it’s comforting to know some safe spaces for these communities have still found the means to exist without scrutiny.
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1 week ago | 
huffpost.com | Njera Perkins
‚ÄúNext Gen NYC‚ÄĚ is one of the top shows streaming on Peacock right now, according to the platform‚Äôs public ranking system. The new reality series, which follows a group of known 20-somethings navigating friendship and adulthood in the Big Apple, premiered June 3 on Bravo. New episodes stream every Wednesday on Peacock.
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1 week ago | 
huffpost.com | Njera Perkins
âTitan: The OceanGate Disasterâ is one of the top movies on Netflix right now, according to the platformâs public ranking system. The documentary revisits the events and decisions that culminated in the 2023 incident, in which the infamous Titan tourist submersible imploded during an ambitious expedition to the Titanic wreck. It premiered first during the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival before being released on Netflix on June 11.
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huffpost.com | Erin E. Evans |Njera Perkins |Lydia O'Connor |Curtis M. Wong
Somehow, we made it to another episode of “And Just Like That...” and we’re still questioning damn near everything that happened. Sure, a lot of us “Sex and the City” fans are hate-watching the spinoff series at this point, but hey, we can’t seem to get enough of Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), Seema (Sarita Choudhury) and Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker).
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Erin (Shields) Evans |Njera Perkins |Lydia O'Connor |Curtis M. Wong
Somehow, we made it to another episode of “And Just Like That...” and we’re still questioning damn near everything that happened. Sure, a lot of us “Sex and the City” fans are hate-watching the spinoff series at this point, but hey, we can’t seem to get enough of Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), Seema (Sarita Choudhury) and Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker).
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huffpost.com | Njera Perkins
Midway through screening “Materialists,” the follow-up to Celine Song’s Oscar-nominated “Past Lives,” I realize I have the A24 romantic comedy all wrong — partly because the movie is a bit too serious to fit, say, the Nora Ephron standard of rom-coms. Another reason is that the film’s vague synopsis hardly does justice to the poignant commentary you discover at the heart of it.
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2 weeks ago | 
huffpost.com | Njera Perkins
It’s hard to forget the calamitous events of the 2021 Astroworld Festival, as what began as a carefree Travis Scott-run concert event quickly spiraled into a harrowing nightmare. On Nov. 5, 2021, at NRG Park in Houston, a deadly catastrophe had unfolded after a massive crowd surge during Scott’s headlining performance. In the end, 10 people died, aged between 9 and 27, and hundreds more suffered physical injuries as well as emotional turmoil.
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2 weeks ago | 
huffpost.com | Njera Perkins
This article includes material from HuffPost’s weekly culture and entertainment newsletter, The Culture Catchall. Click here to subscribe. Anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles are still on the ground pushing back against the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration policies and extreme show of military force. But they aren’t the only ones speaking out.
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2 weeks ago | 
huffpost.com | Njera Perkins
‚ÄúStraw‚ÄĚ is the most popular movie on Netflix right now, according to the platform‚Äôs public ranking system. The melodramatic Tyler Perry-directed thriller stars Taraji P. Henson as a struggling, overworked single mother who, after experiencing a devastatingly bad day, snaps when she reaches her final straw. That fallout comes after getting wrapped up in two murders and a mistaken bank robbery, all while fighting to get back to her daughter.
