At their best, Marvel superhero movies have pathos, ideological battles and high-emotional stakes. — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Blaxploitation films were all about centering Black love, action, pathos and showing Black folks with agency. — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
In the battle for police reform, accountability and justice, Americans don't have to re-invent the wheel. We just have to revoke the thing that… — Jason Johnson Copy Share
The harsh truth is that Trump is a living co-morbidity, he's over 70, out of shape, eats terribly and doesn't believe in science. In… — Jason Johnson Copy Share
The NFL is a league that despite new 'safety rules' is still so fundamentally violent to the Black body that even Calvin Candie would… — Jason Johnson Copy Share
I will admit upfront that I have an inherent bias about 'Fuge State.' It's the story of a Black academic on his way to… — Jason Johnson Copy Share
I quite famously don't know how to play spades, but even I know that you can't switch up the house rules from Joker Joker… — Jason Johnson Copy Share
What turned white women from the pejorative 53% to the blue wave of 2018? Brett Kavanaugh. Those hearings were so explosive, so horrific and… — Jason Johnson Copy Share
History is a group project where, like in high school, one person usually does much of the work but someone else gets to do… — Jason Johnson Copy Share
The Establishment is no longer old white men in a smoke-filled room playing kingmaker. Not in an era of social media, wild-wild west campaign… — Jason Johnson Copy Share
In addition to politics, I usually write about super heroes, science fiction and afro-futurism, so a collection of blaxploitation movies from the mid-70s didn't… — Jason Johnson Copy Share
I don't know who Joe Biden is talking to, but I don't know one Black person in America who sees the Proud Boys tearing… — Jason Johnson Copy Share
Election laws in America are so vague, so open to interpretation and so inconsistently enforced that Donald Trump, along with his allies in State… — Jason Johnson Copy Share
You could easily rename 'Captain America: Civil War' as 'Captain America Defunds S.H.I.E.L.D' and nobody would've noticed. — Jason Johnson Copy Share
There's always something special about being down with something before it goes mainstream. — Jason Johnson Copy Share
Everybody has to know rules and agree to the rules before the game starts, otherwise, you're not really playing, or worse, you are playing… — Jason Johnson Copy Share
Full disclosure, I know as much about Black horror films as I do about blaxploitation films in general, which is little to nothing, and… — Jason Johnson Copy Share
