- This excellent blog post at Sojourners discusses how white allies can and should act to be actual allies to people of color.
- In Wow Did Not See That Coming news, actor Ed Skrein has left the new Hellboy reboot after the internet's outcry about his comic-canon Asian character being whitewashed. The studio has agreed to, instead, cast a more racially appropriate actor to stick with canon.
For today's musical hit, we have Clean Bandit and "Rockabye"
Today's critical rolls: Remember all those roles Hollywood has already whitewashed? Well, time for som fan-casting and dreamcasting! Name the movie/tv you wish Hollywood had gotten right, and who you wish had been cast instead!
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