Atlanta
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Donald Glover Reportedly Shooting Season 2 of Atlanta
Donald Glover’s award-winning television show, Atlanta, has officially begun production on season 2. Film crews for the second season have been reportedly spotted around … Atlanta, of course. According to Atlanta magazine, crews have been filming in the Mechanicsville section of Atlanta, as well as in East Point and Southlake Mall. Also, there have been…
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An Ode to an Unsung Atlanta Classic, Lil Will’s ‘Lookin’ for Nikki’
In March 2016, Netflix debuted The Art of Organized Noize, a thrilling documentary that chronicled the beginnings and rise of the legendary Atlanta musical collective of Rico Wade, Ray Murray and Sleepy Brown—Organized Noize Productions—that brought us Outkast, Goodie Mob, the Dungeon Family, and several musical productions that set the standard for the South and…
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Comedian Dick Gregory Hospitalized
Eighty-four-year-old comedian Dick Gregory has been hospitalized with a serious, but undisclosed, medical condition, according to his son Christian Gregory, who broke the news on Facebook. Although Christian Gregory said that his father should be released “within the next few days,” he added: “When it comes to sickness and disease, one’s age is highly significant.…
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Watch: Atlanta’s Brian Tyree Henry’s Emmy Mixtape
The first black actor Brian Tyree Henry saw on television was Jasmine Guy, in A Different World. Henry was absolutely enamored. Decades later, the idea that Henry might be the first black actor some children are seeing on television means the world to him. “Representation is really key, because I don’t think I’d be anywhere near…
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Donald Glover Says He’s Working on New Music and Season 2 of Atlanta Will Be Better Than the 1st
Donald Glover has his hands full, and apparently he’s cooking up new music and an even better second season of Atlanta. During an interview with BBC Radio 1’s Clara Amfo show on Tuesday, Glover spoke about living in the United Kingdom for the last year and his final album as Childish Gambino. “I’ve been working on…
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Watch: Filmmaker Shaka King Is Making Sure We Really See the Black Experience
Director and writer Shaka King is busy in the TV-and-film industry at the moment, but that wasn’t always the case. “It took a while, but once I started getting the work, it kept coming in. For a while I wasn’t getting shit, but ‘Mulignans’ really did a lot for my career,” says King, who hails…
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2 Chainz Just Gave Me a Few More Reasons to Love Him
I have a confession: I secretly love 2 Chainz. OK, maybe it’s not so secretly, because my friends know that anytime he appears on a song, I am going to turn the volume up as loud as it can go on his parts, and I’m going to rap along at the top of my lungs.…
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‘That White Boy ’Bout to Lose’: The Inescapable Racial Politics of the Ga. 6th Special Election
I was on my way to the Jon Ossoff watch party at a fancy Westin in North Atlanta when I got a call from a good colleague of mine. Somewhere between a black millennial and Gen Xer, he was someone who’d worked on campaigns in Georgia and had a pretty good feel for what was…
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Donald Glover Confirms That He Is Retiring ‘Childish Gambino’
“Childish Gambino,” the moniker that all-around entertainer Donald Glover goes by as a recording artist, shall soon be no more. The rapper-singer-actor-producer-generally multitalented jack-of-all-trades announced over the weekend at the Governor’s Ball Music Festival in New York City that his next album will be his last. “I’ll see you for the last Gambino album,” Glover…