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BGN interviews actor Daisy Ridley (Viola) for the film Chaos Walking.

In the not too distant future, Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) discovers Viola (Daisy Ridley), a mysterious girl who crash lands on his planet, where all the women have disappeared and the men are afflicted by “the Noise” – a force that puts all their thoughts on display. In this dangerous landscape, Viola’s life is threatened – and as Todd vows to protect her, he will have to discover his own inner power and unlock the planet’s dark secrets.

From the director of The Bourne Identity and Edge of Tomorrow and based on the best-selling novel The Knife of Never Letting Go, Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland star with Mads Mikkelsen, Demián Bichir, Cynthia Erivo, Nick Jonas, Kurt Sutter, and David Oyelowo in Chaos Walking.

Interviewer: Jeandra LeBeauf

Video Editor: Jamie Broadnax

Chaos Walking premieres in theaters March 5.

March 1, 2021

Daisy Ridley on Holdin it Down for Womankind in ‘Chaos Walking’

https://blackgirlnerds.com/daisy-ridley-on-holdin-it-down-for-womankind-in-chaos-walking/

BGN interviews actor Daisy Ridley (Viola) for the film Chaos Walking.

In the not too distant future, Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) discovers Viola (Daisy Ridley), a mysterious girl who crash lands on his planet, where all the women have disappeared and the men are afflicted by “the Noise” – a force that puts all their thoughts on display. In this dangerous landscape, Viola’s life is threatened – and as Todd vows to protect her, he will have to discover his own inner power and unlock the planet’s dark secrets.

From the director of The Bourne Identity and Edge of Tomorrow and based on the best-selling novel The Knife of Never Letting Go, Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland star with Mads Mikkelsen, Demián Bichir, Cynthia Erivo, Nick Jonas, Kurt Sutter, and David Oyelowo in Chaos Walking.

Interviewer: Jeandra LeBeauf

Video Editor: Jamie Broadnax

Chaos Walking premieres in theaters March 5.


February 28, 2021

Why It’s Time To Talk About Banking While Black

https://www.essence.com/op-ed/why-its-time-to-talk-about-banking-while-black/

Why It’s Time To Talk About Banking While Black Getty By Ben Jealous and Joe Sanberg ·February 28, 2021February 28, 2021

This country has a long history of environmental racism—and it’s been funded by our nation’s big banks. 

Many of the most pressing climate justice issues for communities of color today can be traced back to the decades-long practice by banks and insurers that segregated America by concentrating Black homeowners in undesirable neighborhoods, preventing Black-owned businesses from getting loans, and engaging in predatory lending practices. 

This state-sponsored segregation is known as redlining, and directly resulted in Black families building their communities next to landfills, industrial plants, and highways that carried pollution into their family homes. For decades, people in redlined areas were denied access to mortgages and other credit, fueling a cycle of disinvestment.

Nearly a century of institutional racism practiced by banks has put communities of color at the frontlines of the climate emergency today, and hugely exacerbated disparities in wealth, income, and power in this country. And, let’s be clear: redlining never went away. Racism has been baked into the American banking system. 

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One recent study in Chicago found that JP Morgan Chase lent 41 times more money in white neighborhoods than black neighborhoods; Bank of America lent 29 times more money in Chicago’s white communities than it did in black communities. 

So, you shouldn’t be surprised that more than 47% of Black Americans are unbanked or underbanked, compared to 18% of whites. The cycle is straightforward: a Black family can’t get a big enough loan from their bank to move into the suburbs, so they end up buying their new home a stone’s throw from an oil field. 

That chemical plant is funded by some of the $2.7 trillion that big banks have funnelled into fossil fuel production in the last four years—production that is inevitably concentrated in communities of color. 

The banks profit. The oil companies profit. The family suffers. Black communities deal with 56 percent more air pollution than they create. Black Americans are three times more likely than whites to be hospitalized or die from asthma.

Photo: JGI/Jamie Grill/Getty

Of the 73 waste-burning incinerators across the United States, an astounding 79 percent are located within three miles of low-income and minority neighborhoods, which are exposed to mercury, lead, and soot.

Formerly-redlined neighborhoods are today 5 degrees hotter in summer, on average, than areas once favored by banks for housing loans, with some cities seeing differences as large as 12 degrees.

And big banks are responsible. They’ve made their values clear: big banks short-term profits are more important than the long-term health of communities of color.

If you took part in Black Lives Matter protests this past year—the biggest movement in U.S. history; if you were outraged by the poisoning of Black children in Flint, Michigan; if you care about climate change and racial justice, it’s time to move your money out of the institutions that are destroying the health of communities of color and of our planet. 

Ben Jealous (@BenJealous) is the president for People For the American Way and Joe Sanberg (@JosephNSanberg) is the co-founder of Aspiration.

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February 28, 2021

Rihanna’s Homage to MLK (Is a Problem!); Can SOUL TV be Rebooted?; Blue Beetle’s Spotlight; Black News Channel on the Rise; Live Action Big Hero 6?; "Excellence" @Kickstarter & More: The Mid Week Show, WED 8pm EST

http://www.afronerd.com/2021/02/rihannas-homage-to-mlk-is-problem-can.html

 



Welcome to Afronerd Radio's Mid Week in Review broadcast airing every Wednesday at 8 pm eastern on the BTalk 100 platform.  Due to time constraints, we're just going to delve into the topics slated for discussion:  Dburt (and thankfully other folks on social media) was perplexed/angered concerning the above "ghettoized" image of Civil Rights icon, Dr. Martin Luther King used by popular songstress, Rihanna to adorn her Twitter page.  Is this ignorance, disdain, or a youthful need to "update" for the sake of relatability?; famed attorney and author, Lawrence Otis Graham (Our Kind of People, Member of the Club) dies at 59; several weeks ago we highlighted the exemplary PBS documentary, Mr. Soul, which lends focus to not only the groundbreaking nature of the late 60s/early 70s  Black culture TV series but also its host, the late Ellis Haizlip.  Now that the doc is out, your "friendly neighborhood" hosts ponder if  a rebooted show could exist in today's socio-political climate:


Finally...DC Films has just announced that they are bringing the character, Blue Beetle to the big screen as the studio's first Latinx superhero movie-including Charm City Kings director, Angel Manuel Soto to helm the project; well it looks like Disney is not going to produce a live-action version of their popular animated series, Big Hero 6 based on the late 90s obscure Marvel comic book IP;  our impressions of the premiere episode of the CW's Superman and Lois TV series and if the racial inclusivity issues raised by former show writer, Nadria Tucker are warranted; legendary filmmaker, Spike Lee switches to his producer hat for another Netflix project entitled "Gordon Hemingway & the Realm of Cthulhu"

 


Lastly, time willing, we will try to touch on several floating stories-TheRoot.com's piece on the evolution of the Black superhero; a burgeoning Black news channel is positioning itself as a player in the highly competitive media landscape; and our own, "Uncanny" Daryll B. is as prescient as ever with his recent acknowledgment of the Image Excellence comic series

 *One thing that Dburt is doing (finally) is investing in cryptocurrency, courtesy of Roundlyx. We would implore our followers to investigate, discern and then explore by using our referral code: afro-87A4BF


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February 28, 2021

Black Superman!; Bill Maher & Megyn Kelly Talk Race; Yep, More Wandavision; Milestone Details; Blackness in Anime; Army of the Dead Trailer; Obama & Springsteen Podcast: Afronerd Radio’s Grindhouse, SUN, 6pm EST

http://www.afronerd.com/2021/02/black-superman-bill-maher-megyn-kelly.html

 



Channeling the Nike commercials from years back......Let's just do it!  Welcome to the latest installment of  Afronerd Radio's The Grindhouse broadcast-airing every Sunday at 6 p.m. eastern at BTalk 100. The topical sudoku puzzles to be decrypted this week are: it was announced earlier this week that filmmaker J.J. Abrams (Bad Robot) and prolific writer/graphic novelist, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Black Panther, Between the World Me) are teaming up to produce and script a new Superman movie (a Black Supes?);  Dburt checked out the Friday night episode of  Real Time with Bill Maher which included the show's  eponymous host interviewing former news correspondent, Megyn Kelly (Fox, NBC) about race and PC culture.  Something about the interview didn't sit right with (Black)Twitter or The Daily Beast:



   
We need to really speak about the penultimate episode of Disney+'s Wandavision as well as what to expect for the season (series?) finale; simply more Milestone news, including writer, Vita Ayala's new Static Shock gig (yay! or nay!);  TheMarySue.com site does a quick but sharp focus on how Blackness is depicted in Anime projects; while director, Zack Snyder is basking in the renewed interest in his forthcoming HBO Max Justice League film, his Army of the Dead trailer recently hit the cyberverse:


Legendary animator and comic book creator, Dwayne McDuffie finally gets his closeup in an upcoming Warner documentary; Lastly, former President Barack Obama has a podcast co-hosted by New Jersey rock legend, Bruce Springsteen and the show does dig deeper.....hence the reparations conversation



*One thing that Dburt is doing (finally) is investing in cryptocurrency, courtesy of Roundlyx. We would implore our followers to investigate, discern and then explore by using our referral code: afro-87A4BF


Call us LIVE at 508-645-0100. AFTER CLICKING ON THE HIGHLIGHTED LINK, GO DIRECTLY TO AFRONERD RADIO!!! 


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Also, Afronerd Radio's podcast format can be heard via BTalk 100 PandoraSpotify and,  IHeartRadio....more formats to follow!


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