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https://www.blackenterprise.com/harriet-tubman-probably-wouldnt-approve-of-her-image-on-oneunited-banks-black-history-month-debit-card/

OneUnited Bank has released a limited-edition Harriet Tubman Visa Debit Card to celebrate Black History Month! And, I honestly don’t think that Harriet would approve.

In a news feature published on OneUnited Bank’s website they wrote:

We have the power to place Harriet Tubman on a global payment device in celebration of Black History Month and in tribute to the many others who freed enslaved people. This symbol of Black empowerment in 2020 will pave the way for the Harriet Tubman design on the $20 bill.

The Harriet Tubman Visa Debit Card is the first limited-edition card offered by OneUnited Bank and will only be available in 2020. The card image is from the painting “The Conqueror” by the internationally acclaimed artist Addonis Parker. If you obtain the Harriet Tubman Card in 2020, you can carry the card design for life.

In addition to its limited-edition Harriet Tubman Card, OneUnited Bank will promote the “Right to Vote” theme for Black History Month to elevate the #BankBlack and #BuyBlack Movements to the next level and beyond. For more information visit www.oneunited.com/HarrietTubman.

Harriet Tubman’s legacy supersedes the fictional kingdom of Wakanda.

On Feb. 13, the bank tweeted about Tubman.

Harriet Tubman is the ultimate symbol of love – love that causes you to sacrifice everything, including your own life. The gesture is the sign language symbol for love. It’s so important that we love ourselves.

— OneUnited Bank (@oneunited) February 13, 2020

Take a look at how others are reacting:

@oneunited, please contact me. This could have been avoided.

— TyreeBP (@TyreeBP) February 13, 2020

There’s aren’t enough languages to say “this ain’t it”.

— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) February 13, 2020

FAM NOT THE WAKANDA SALUTE TOO pic.twitter.com/jeQOM1YfjO

— THE KID MERO (@THEKIDMERO) February 13, 2020

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— L-Dub (@MsWilliamsWorld) February 13, 2020

Well, there you have it.

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The ideas and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author’s and not necessarily the opinion of Black Enterprise.

https://nerdist.com/article/hunters-series-review/

Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming series Hunters immediately intrigued fans with an ambitious premise. creator David Weil teamed up with Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions to bring this show to fruition and, if the first episode is any indication, it’s going to be a brilliant mix of heartbreak, vengeance, humor, and mystery all wrapped up in one.

The plot follows Jonah Heidelbaum (Logan Lerman), a teenager who lives in Brooklyn with his Holocaust survivor grandmother Ruth in 1977. His life changes when Ruth’s murder introduces him to Meyer Offerman, a rich man who was in a concentration camp alongside Ruth. Jonah discovers that Ruth and Meyer started The Hunters, a group of skilled people who are on a mission to stop Nazis living in the United States from starting a Fourth Reich.

Hunters builds its foundation with a movie-length premiere that properly establishes a few main players. It kicks off with a chilling opening scene, then works on building the relationship between Jonah and Meyer, played by the incomparable Al Pacino.

The layers quickly begin to build as Jonah’s desperate investigation into Ruth’s life and death parallels FBI Agent Millie Malone (Jerrika Hinton) and an odd case that cracks the door to a harrowing discovery. The actors all slip into their roles with ease, establishing their motivations and shaping their engaging personalities. Will Jonah be a beloved protagonist? Probably not. But, his shortcomings leave room for reality checks and maturation.

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Unlike many shows and films that attempt to rationalize or create empathy for Nazis, Hunters has no interest in a crafting a rosy narrative. The antagonists vary widely from those who are outwardly menacing and violent to others who have learned to put on a trustworthy persona to mask their true nature.

It’s incredibly unsettling and will have viewers wondering about full extent of this Nazi network. There are also disturbing looks to the past that dive into the psychological torture experienced by Jewish people and how it affects their current state of affairs 30 years later.

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Jonah and Meyer’s conversations about life, the present, and what it means to seek justice strike an emotional chord and open the door for deeper conversations. And, as expected, there are an abundance of breadcrumbs, minute details, and themes established early in Hunters that beg to be dissected by eagle-eyed viewers. Hunters does a lot of work to quickly give several characters layers before it expands its world and it’s going to be thrilling to see how all the pieces mesh together.

Meyer’s words describe the show’s premise best: “This is not murder. This is mitzvah.” The Hunters are on a mission to stop mayhem before it unleashes on society and there’s nothing (or no one) who can prevent their revenge. Jonah has the motivation to join the hunt, but the premiere will leave viewers wondering if it will be enough to step across a bloody line.

Featured Image: Amazon Prime Studios

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https://www.essence.com/lifestyle/food-drinks/corn-african-american-kitchens/

Though diverse in taste and texture, cornbread has had a ubiquitous presence on American dinner tables across the nation—from North to South to East to West. While regional food sources and cultural dynamics have evolved the African-Americans diet, some things like cornbread persisted through time, migration and more. But why?

“The most popular rations that were given out to enslaved people as inexpensive staples was cornmeal,” says Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie, professor of history and foodways at Babson College in Babson Park, Mass. “Corn is something that the Portuguese

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https://blackgirlnerds.com/the-neighborhoods-tichina-arnold-on-her-new-movie-menopause-and-kobe-bryant/

Don’t go Hollywood on Tichina Arnold. She’s a homegirl all the way. She acts for a living but is never actressy. She has “people” but they are relaxed, not overly fussy.

BGN caught up with Arnold having a quick bite with her publicist while chatting with an industry executive fan and giving a quick wave and hello to NBA great, Norm Nixon (father of Vivian Nixon, a TV actress) at the Doris Bergman Luxury Lounge and Party at the trendy Fig & Olive restaurant during Oscar weekend.

After praising Nixon (and wife Debbie Allen in absentia) on their parenting skills, Arnold briefed BGN on her current outlook on life and how that has created some new situation comedy material for her TV character.

Catch us up. What is going on with you?

I’m a menopausal woman with a teenager, a mean-ager. So there’s a vortex going on in my life but it’s one of those things that is a wonderful vortex. I am finally on a major network. This is my first time doing a sitcom on a major network.

Besides that, I am working with amazing people. Working with Cedric the Entertainer is a joy because he’s a wonderful human being. Life is good.

I want to continue to inspire people. I want to keep my feet on the ground. I want to raise a very productive daughter so she can become a woman who can give something to humanity. So I am pretty simple and…I like my coffee in the morning.

Anything that we should know about your character that is coming up on the show?

There’s some funny stuff coming up on The Neighborhood but I have a movie coming out on Netflix called The Main Event.  It’s the first time I’ve ever played this type of character. They call me G-Ma. So working on that film and creating a relationship with Netflix as well as doing a film for kids…it’s one of those films that everyone can watch.

I used to watch the World Wrestling Federation, WWF. That is what it was back then, now it’s WWE. For them to research and reinvent themselves in a way where it’s conducive to what’s happening now… We don’t have many family movies so they are in a genre where I want to be. To have films that everybody can come to see.

Fans of The Neighborhood are also going to want to know what’s coming up. 

We’re doing an episode right now about menopause. 

As you know I share my menopausal moments with everybody, with the world! I’m not taking this burden on by myself. If I feel it, everybody around me is going to feel it.

Jim Reynolds, our executive producer and creator walked up to me and asked, ‘Would you mind if we did a menopause episode?” I said, “Absolutely do it!”

I don’t mind and I like to make fun of menopause; to find the funny moments where you laugh instead of cry. I think that it is making me a better person because you are conscious of something. You are battling something.

My sister has lupus, and we have a foundation. We are learning so much by having our issues, our problems. But we welcome them because we are working on ourselves. 

The Neighborhood is just a great show, especially in this day and age. We need to laugh. [The show] is not too racy. It’s not too corny. People can watch our show and see a Black woman and a white woman really enjoying their relationship.

They can see a Black man and a white man learning how to get along and coexist. So I think it’s an amazing show.

So the show is teaching?

Yeah, and through what better way than laughter. Also, a lot of people don’t have anything to compare it to. Maybe you have people who are racist, or whatever label you want to put on them, who may watch the show and see something they’ve never seen before, or something that makes them inquisitive.

Celebs Talk Kobe Bryant Memorial

Party attendee Norm Nixon had thoughts on the tragic death of Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles public memorial scheduled for the Staples Center on February 24. 

Black-ish and Mixed-ish star Anthony Anderson, at the same event, said he planned to attend the service. “I plan on being there if work doesn’t get in the way.”

Here’s excerpts from BGN’s conversation with Norm Nixon.

Are you going to go to the memorial and do you have any idea of who’s on the program?

No one has any idea. So we’ll just see. I’m sure there will be a ceremony for a lot of the Lakers players, but we will have to wait and see.

How is everyone in your camp?

We are all good. Kobe was a big supporter of our dance academy. I had a chance to spend time with him within the last several months and talk about a guy who made a transformation.

He left sports. That was a chapter of his life, and he was on to something new. I think his work and his impact on the world had just started.

I know this affects so many fathers and daughters. 

Oh, all those kids. The parents with their daughters, the coach, the wife and his daughter. He has two kids that are orphans. The mother that died. The father has those three kids. Kobe’s baby girl will never really meet him. It’s just tragic.

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