Summer ’22 is nearing the tip and while it wasn’t one for the books, it wasn’t too bad either. Sure, you’ve gotten an email reminding you that student loan payments will return soon, Monkeypox is outshining COVID-19, Polio is back, and Murder Inc.’s legendary producer Irv Gotti is oversharing details about Ashanti from over 20 years ago, but things are mostly going as expected. A president not keeping his campaign guarantees, an annoying ex popping back up, and viruses overtaking society, is normal now.
So, here’s just a few things you may have missed this week whilst you were accepting the inevitable.
1. Guess Who’s Coming Back To The Screen
The primary trailer for Sidney, Apple TV+’s upcoming documentary on legendary film icon Sidney Poitier, has been released. Produced by Oprah Winfrey and directed by Reginald Hudlin (House Party, Boomerang), the documentary reveals and honors the legacy of Poitier, who died earlier this 12 months at 94. Within the trailer, it begins with Poitier having a powerful sense of self growing up, humbly in The Bahamas. Nevertheless, his perceptions quickly change once he arrives within the U.S. within the Forties. Poitier’s profession as a number one Black actor blossomed within the late ’50 to mid ’60s, while America’s race relations boiled over within the foreground. He expanded the lens of who Black men were and could possibly be in era-defining movies including The Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Defiant Ones (1958), A Raisin within the Sun (1961), Lilies of the Field (1963), and three major movies in 1967 alone: To Sir, with Love, Within the Heat of the Night, and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.
Not only was he an iconic actor and filmmaker, he was also an activist at the middle of the Civil Rights Movement, alongside friend Harry Belafonte. The documentary features candid interviews with Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Robert Redford, Lenny Kravitz, Barbra Streisand, Spike Lee and plenty of more.
Sidney premieres September 23 in theaters and on Apple TV+.
2. The NBA is Not Playing Around With Voting
The National Basketball Association announced that there can be no games scheduled on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022. The league’s schedule for the approaching season can have all 30 teams playing on Nov. 7, the night before the midterm elections. Normally, the NBA blocks off just two days with no games: Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. Also, the league doesn’t schedule any games throughout the NCAA men’s basketball championship game.
“The scheduling decision got here out of the NBA family’s give attention to promoting nonpartisan civic engagement and inspiring fans to make a plan to vote during midterm elections,” the league tweeted.
In an announcement released by the NBA, CEO of Vote.org Andrea Hailey said, “The NBA is making a culture of political participation, which extends not only to its athletes but to fans as well.”
Much of the NBA’s social and cultural awareness was mobilized by actual players, which is made up of 73 percent Black men. Throughout the racial rebellion of 2020, the league announced it was converting several arenas into polling locations for the presidential election. The choice was a part of an agreement to resume games after players staged a walkout in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by a police officer in Kenosha, Wis. The move is a protracted distance from the idea that players should just “shut up in dribble.”
The regular season begins on Oct. 18.
3. Kinky’s Dessert Bar, A Recent Naughty Pleasure
Back on Valentine’s day, town that never sleeps welcomed its first adult bakery. And in fact, it’s Black-owned. In keeping with owners, married couple and food entrepreneurs, August and John DeWindt, the aim of Kinky’s is “cheekily celebrating two of America’s favorite things and bringing them under one roof: desserts and sex.” The fun, sex-positive, and gender-inclusive space is simply for the 18 and over crowd. Between the bombastic sex-fueled tunes playing and the vintage X-rated posters plastered on the partitions, this storefront is really for the grown and sexy. Inspired by erotic waffles popping up on the streets of Bangkok, Taiwan, Paris, London, and Spain.
Kinky’s signature waffles, are shaped in each reproductive parts: “Dicky” and “Vajayjay” and are crammed with an array of homemade creams in several flavors, equivalent to Beg For More Banana (banana pudding) and Freak Like Me Apple, (cinnamon apple pie). All okay Kinky’s cookies are topped with fondant images of various explicitness and expressions like “Eat Me” and “Lick Me.” The cupcakes are also topped with fondant sculpted into either a “Vajayjay” or “Boobie” and appear in flavors like I Like It Rough (red velvet) and Do It Anywhere (chocolate)—one among the few vegan options. Because the weather heats up, whether you’re boo’d up, happily single, or still in that talkin‘ phase, you’ve to treat yourself to at least one (or more) of Kinky’s tantalizing treats.
The couple can be behind Fluffy’s and John’s Juice.
4. Black Youths Run The Web
A recent 2022 study revealed that Black parents are barely correct: kids do all the time be on them phones. In keeping with Pew Research Center, Black (and Hispanic) teens stand out for being on the web more steadily than white teens. Some 56 percent of Black teens say they’re online almost continuously in comparison with 37 percent of white teens.
The study explores the frequency with which teens are on each of the highest five online platforms: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, in addition to how they access the platforms. Lower income households are less more likely to have desktop computers and gaming consoles. The study also found notable demographic differences by teens’ genders in social media selections. For instance, teen boys are more likely than teen girls to make use of YouTube, Twitch and Reddit. Nevertheless, teen girls are more likely than teen boys to make use of TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat. The study found YouTube is the primary platform amongst teens at 95 percent. Facebook has officially grow to be the Aunties and Uncles platform, as usage amongst teens has dropped from 71 percent to 32 percent. TikTok sits because the second most used platform amongst teens. While Instagram and Snapchat sit a 3rd and fourth place respectively, with an over 10 percent increase in teen usage since 2014. Nevertheless, platforms like Twitter and Tumblr are on the decline.
What the study doesn’t capture though, is the racial disparities amongst online influencers. So, while Black youths are spending essentially the most time on the TikTok, creating and setting trends, pushing hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue, and defining popular American culture, the most important faces the platform are white.
5. AFRO Celebrates Its 130th Birthday
Earlier this week, on Aug. 13, AFRO American Newspaper turned 130 years old. In keeping with Philadelphia Printworks, AFRO’s first issue was published in Baltimore, Maryland in 1892. It was a four-page tabloid. The periodical advocated for laws for Black people, a state supported university for Black people and the hiring of Black people, by town’s police and fire departments. The business when up for auction five years later after struggling to remain afloat. John H. Murphy, a publisher and print foreman, decided to purchase each the name and press with money borrowed from his wife, Martha. Five generations later, their descendants still own the press. It’s the oldest Black business in Maryland, and the third oldest within the country.
To rejoice such a momentous occasion, AFRO teamed up with PPW, is an independent Black woman-owned clothing brand, to create a capsule collection. The five-piece collection consisting of tees, a poster, and a tote bag, archives the history and the impact of AFRO’s dedication to capturing Black life; in addition to to fundraise to develop a everlasting home and research center for the gathering. Proceeds would allow AFRO to full its hopes to digitize its three million images, 1000’s of letters, back issues, personal audio recordings between publisher Carl Murphy and Thurgood Marshall, and picked up ephemera from a century’s price of social, skilled, and political events.
6. Brooklyn Teen Wins Gold At U.S. Fencing National Championship
A 14-year-old from Brooklyn won a gold medal on the U.S. Fencing National Championships in Minnesota, based on Bronx News 12.
Nazir Primus began fencing just 4 years ago, purely off the interest of “whacking people.”
“I just began as just an informal thing,” Primus told the local news outlet. “But as I began doing it more I believed this could possibly be something I’m good at and something I desired to do.” Now, he holds his first national win.
While fencing shouldn’t be the primary activity one would consider for a Black youth, the game is in his bloodline. He was introduced to fencing by his uncle, who’s an internationally ranked fencer. Primus says he made his biggest improvements throughout the pandemic while working with Daryl Homer and Columbia University fencing coach, Aki Spencer-El. Each of that are former Olympians. Primus’ father, Latir, told Because Of Them We Can, that Nazir aspired to follow within the footsteps of Black fencers before him like Homer, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Peter Westbrook, and Keeth Smart.
Primus says he’s the 2028 Olympic games in Los Angeles for his own Olympic dreams.
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