For Colored Nerds

B & E take a look back at the 2015 movie, The Fits. Along the way, they talk about the interior lives of Black children, the spookiness of discovering your body, and who should be able to tell Black stories.

Required reading:

http://theundefeated.com/features/out-of-the-fits-and-into-formation/

http://www.vogue.com/13442440/the-fits-anna-rose-holmer-interview/

http://themuse.jezebel.com/black-movie-white-director-richard-tanne-on-the-obama-1785755757

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B & E sit down with author Brit Bennett to talk about her new book, The Mothers. During the talk we cover Sula, good white people, American Girl dolls and consider what it means to be a "fuccboi with a heart of gold".

Episode Reading:

http://jezebel.com/i-dont-know-what-to-do-with-good-white-people-1671201391

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/05/28/addy-walker-american-girl/

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This week, B & E sit down with Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, who co-wrote All American Boys, a YA novel about police brutality from the point of view of two teenage boys, one black and one white. For more on their book: http://bit.ly/2dqmPvA

Here's a list of the authors and books named by Jason and Brendan at the end of the show:

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B & E sit down to talk about the things that have kept them sane this summer, then they get out of the studio for a trip to the Black Art Incubator.

More Info:

Park Ave Armory Youth Corps: http://youthcorps.tumblr.com/

White Girls By Hilton Als:

Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching by Mychal Denzel Smith: https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Man-Whole-World-Watching/dp/1568585284

The Mothers by Brit Bennett: https://www.amazon.com/Mothers-Novel-Brit-Bennett/dp/0399184511\

Black Art Incubator: http://www.recessart.org/blackartincubator/

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Brittany and Eric are celebrating the 2nd birthday of For Colored Nerds by handing out a fresh batch of accolades to this years, blackest, brightest and best. Thanks for sticking with us another year!

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Jezebel's Clover Hope sits with down Brittany and Eric to talk about Ghostbusters, Leslie Jones, and what it means to be a visible Black woman.

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Doreen St. Felix of MTV News joins B & E as they talk Tyler Perry, Kanye West, and Spike to see if the enduring Tyler Perry hate is deserved.

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This episode is jam-packed as B & E play Six Degrees of Black Separation, talk with special guests Ashley Ford & Vann Newkirk II about Serena, Afrofuturism, butterflies, relationships and more! Recorded at the sold out "For Colored Nerds Live" show in NYC at WNYC's Jerome L Greene performance space.

For the full experience, you can watch the show on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9vFWCsw00vk

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Inspired by Slate's list of the 50 Greatest Films by Black Directors, B & E submit two of their own favorites that didn't make the cut: Brother to Brother (2004) and Hav Plenty (1998). https://tab.bz/diiny

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With Brittany on Baecation, the lovely Lola from Mmhmm, Girl drops by for a little reality tv talk.

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