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When you don't have a lot of money, but you need to have a lot of Halloween style, make your own wee witch hats from dollar store stuff, just like The Dollar Diva did! Check out her clever witch hat craft over here: [make Halloween witch hats]

Project Materials:

• Party hats, $1
• Party plates, $1
• Spray paint, on hand or $1
• Glitter, on hand or $1
• Glue, on hand

Total: $2 and up

On this episode of Geeks on News, before we can get started, King Phayce tells us a strange tale of his recent midday trip to his local movie theater. Our Sithy News Director covers a few stories, including: Netflix crashing during the premiere of Luke Cage, Star...

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Introducing a new TV series to the masses is always hard, especially when the premise involves anything complicated like time travel. You have to introduce all new characters, explain the premise of the […]

My sister, Dr. Tara Betts, dropped the Luke Cage syllabus over at Black Nerd Problems. It is a must read. I wanted to add to this wealth of knowledge by offering my own “special features” companion piece to Cage. I will present the following without description as I do not want to taint anyone’s experience. This is only a small amount if what is actually out there. I mentioned other books in my reflections on the series. You can read it here.

Film:

• Across 110^th Street (1972)
• A Great Day In Harlem (1994)
• Small Wonders (1995)
• Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
• The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940)
• Homegoings (2013)

Books:

• The Sanctified Church by Zora Neale Hurston
• Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America by Jonathan Gill
• The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art by Frances Gateward and John Jennings
• Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity by Monica Miller
• The “Kenyatta” Series by Donald Goines: Crime Partners, Death List, Kenyatta’s Escape, Kenyatta’s Last Hit
• There Goes the ‘Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up by Lance Freeman

Music:

• Gang Starr (For those of you who don’t know, every episode of Luke Cage is titled after a Gang Starr song.) “Moment of Truth,” “Code of the Streets,” “Who’s Gonna take the Weight,” “Step in the Arena,” “Just to Get a Rep,” “Suckas Need Bodyguards,” “Manifest,” “Blowin’ Up the Spot,” “DWYCK,” “Take it Personal,” “Now You’re Mine,” “Soliloquy of Chaos,” and “You Know my Steez” is one hell of a Gang Star mixtape.
• Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous (1995)
• The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die (1994)
• Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)
• The Delfonics La-La Means I love You: The Definitive Collection (1997)
• The Cadillacs “Gloria” single (1954)
• Mary Lou Williams The First Lady of Piano (1953)

Misc:

• The Moynihan Report
• Black Folks and Kung Fu films

Get to learnin’.