From the silver screen to the social feed, the portrayal of Black people has never been accidental. It’s been edited, framed, and filtered — often through lenses that told America more about its fears than its truths. For decades, film and media didn’t just entertain; they educated the public on who we were supposed  to be. The problem? Those lessons were written by people who never lived our stories. From “Stepin Fetchit” to “Superfly” Early Hollywood carved stereotypes into

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I think I might have loved him from the moment I heard his baritone on the other line and we spent days and months learning each other. ...

The line is thin between love and hate. Yet no one ever speaks about the middle. That's where I stood - not in love not in hate. I stood...