‘Unprisoned’ Showrunner Says TV “Making Progress” With Black Stories – Deadline
Yvette Lee Bowser points to Unprisoned — Onyx’s first scripted comedy that stars Kerry Washington and Delroy Lindo — as a key example of how far TV has come when it comes to telling contemporary Black stories. “We are absolutely making progress,” said Bowser, whose numerous credits include A…
Jenny Slate On Making The ‘Marcel the Shell with Shoes On’ Microcosm – Deadline
Jenny Slate is pretty memorable as an entitled dry-cleaning client twirling a chihuahua around her head in Everything Everywhere All at Once, but it’s her role as an animated shell with one googly eye that really captured attention this season. In Marcel the Shell with…
Hulu Announces Premiere Date For Docuseries – Deadline
The 1619 Project has an airdate. The six-part limited docuseries, which is an expansion of the book created by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine, is set to premiere with two episodes on Hulu Jan. 26, with two episodes releasing weekly…
Bravo Drops ‘Summer House’ Season 7 Trailer & Teases Feud Between Danielle Olivera & Lindsay Hubbard That Led To Fallout – Deadline
Bravo dropped the trailer for Summer House Season 7 and the heat is on as Danielle Olivera and Lindsay Hubbard’s friendship is tested. The reality series returns on Monday, February 13 starting at 9 p.m. ET. Watch the preview in the video posted above. Also…
Onyx Picks Up Gabourey Sidibe Comedy Pilot, Doc About Black Twitter – Deadline
Onyx has ordered a scripted comedy from 20th Television featuring Gabourey Sidibe and has made straight to series order on a docuseries about Black Twitter. The pilot 1266 follows Gabby Brixton (Sidibe), who’s living with her mom and making half-hearted attempts to become a singer/model and…
‘The Territory’ Protagonist Bitaté On His Fight To Save His Homeland – Deadline
For young Bitaté Uru Eu Wau Wau, the distant chattering of a buzzsaw sends an ominous signal. It’s the sound of his people’s land in the Brazilian rainforest being chewed up by illegal invaders. The Oscar-shortlisted documentary The Territory, directed by Alex Pritz, shows how…
Strategies to Lift Students Out of the Math Fact Fog
By Kathleen Palmieri Recently a few things have become increasingly evident to me in my math class. First, as concepts are introduced and practiced, students still show signs of what I call “math fact fog.” This made-up term is what I call the decline in…
SPEND Helps Students Add More Detail to Research and Writing
A MiddleWeb Blog How many times have you found yourself saying “Provide more details” during conferences or in written comments? I have to confess that it has been a mantra of mine for most of my career as a language acquisition and literacy development specialist…
Black History All Year Long
Updated January 2023 More than a century and a half after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, students in 2022 will continue a 95-year tradition of studying African American history during February and returning to it as the term provides opportunities. (Also see “Debating Black…
Cate Blanchett Defends ‘Tar’ From Symphony Conductor’s Criticism – Deadline
Vitriolic criticism from famous conductor Marin Alsop about the film Tar has provoked a reaction from the film’s star, Cate Blanchett. Speaking to BBC Radio 4 on Thursday, Blanchett snapped back at Alsop, who told The Sunday Times earlier this week that Tár, a story about a world-renowned…