Stories about enslaved Africans can be depressing, exciting, educational and, yes, even entertaining depending on your taste. However, they should never be… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Without question, 'The Underground Railroad' is beautifully filmed, and for the most part well acted. The show also manages to do something… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
The American 'slave genre' of films has picked up some good and bad cliches over the years and, unfortunately, 'The Underground Railroad'… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Despite strong performances, Barry Jenkin's 'The Underground Railroad' is plodding and rudderless. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
