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Ian McShane as Mr. Wednesday and Ricky Whittle as Shadow Moon hit the road in the new Starz adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods.

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In 'American Gods,' Even Deities Have The Immigrant Experience

5:42pm May 01, 2017

by Mallory Yu

In the new Starz adaptation of Neil Gaiman's beloved fantasy novel, gods from all over the world are drawn to America when their worshippers arrive here — whether as immigrants, explorers, or slaves.

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W. Kamau Bell performs at Vulture Festival Comedy Night in New York City in 2014.

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W. Kamau Bell's 'Awkward Thoughts' On Racism And Black Comedy

2:28pm May 01, 2017

by Terry Gross

Feeling out of place is a fact of life for Bell, who describes himself as a "black and proud ... mama's boy." He celebrates his outsider status in the new memoir The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell.

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Music & Culture

PBS To Rebroadcast Its Remarkable 'Latin Music USA' Series From 2009

1:35pm April 28, 2017

by Felix Contreras

AltLatino Extra presents a Q&A with the co-creator and Supervising Producer of the seminal PBS music documentary series, Latin Music USA.

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Arts

'Dear White People' Creator Calls The Netflix Series 'A Conversation Starter'

9:20am April 28, 2017

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Justin Simien, the creator and writer of Dear White People, a film-turned-Netflix series about being black at a mostly white elite college.

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Wes Moore speaks at the Robin Hood Veterans Summit at Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on May 7, 2012 in New York City.

This Week In Race: Fox Sued, Schools Resegregate, Shea Moisture Gets Thirsty

9:05am April 28, 2017

by Karen Grigsby Bates

A racial discrimination suit is filed against Fox. Is an Alabama school district getting around integration? Shea Moisture apologizes for a commercial. And, there's a new philanthropist in town.

Actresses Logan Browning (left) and Ashley Blaine Featherson appear in a scene from the Netflix show Dear White People.

This Time, 'Dear White People' Is Not So Much About Them

5:52pm April 27, 2017

by Eric Deggans

Netflix's hit show, with its incessant and incisive look at race at a fictional Ivy League college, doesn't really focus much on white people at all.

The few fertile women remaining in the oppressive Republic of Gilead must serve as reproductive surrogates for powerful leaders in the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale.

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'Handmaid's Tale' Wants You To Feel Like 'This Could Happen Here'

6:26pm April 26, 2017

by Audie Cornish

Elisabeth Moss and Samira Wiley star in Hulu's TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel — in which fertile women become reproductive surrogates for powerful men and their barren wives.

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Hulu's 'Handmaid's Tale' Delivers A Timely And Feminist Message

2:06pm April 26, 2017

by David Bianculli

A new 10-part adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1986 novel stars Elisabeth Moss as a woman living in a totalitarian state. Critic David Bianculli says the miniseries depicts a bleak and haunting future.

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Arts

'Veep' Executive Producer On Making A Show About The 'Craven Desire For Power'

2:06pm April 26, 2017

The HBO series is now in its sixth season. Producer Frank Rich also writes a column for New York magazine about the intersection of politics and popular culture.

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Elisabeth Moss and Alexis Bledel as the Handmaids Offred and Ofglen in Hulu's new limited series, The Handmaid's Tale.

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Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale' Is Compelling — And Chilling

10:37am April 26, 2017

by Eric Deggans

The adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian 1985 novel is a horror show revealed in slow motion — and the true horror of its brutal, patriarchal future theocracy is how possible it seems today.

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