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Pop Culture Fix: Janelle Monáe and Stacey Abrams Team Up to Try to Save Democracy

Heather Hogan
Sep 9, 2020

A Wednesday upon you, my friends! Here is one (1) Pop Culture Fix for you!


+ Janelle Monáe’s song for Stacey Abrams’ All In: The Fight For Democracy was released yesterday!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4U7k_5ML04&feature=emb_logo

+ This new Rebecca trailer is so so so straight???

+ Here, read Drew’s review of Hitchcock’s adaptation instead.

+ Ellen’s returning for her 18th season on September first, and she says “yes, we’re gonna talk about it.”

+ Black Girl Nerds chatted with Janelle Monáe ahead of Antebellum.

+ And also Kiersey Clemons and Tongayi Chirisa!

+ What’s it like to be cancelled by Netflix?

+ The Chi has been renewed for season four. (Have you read Natalie and Carmen’s review of season three yet?)

+ I am late to this, and obviously I’m going to figure out what the hell Quibi is and how to get it onto my phone to watch, but did you know Paula Pell’s in this new series The Mapleworth Murders?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtrt-TkWDxw&ab_channel=Quibi

+ Last night The Oscars announced inclusion requirements for Best Picture nominations (love yourself enough to not read the comments on that article!)

+ Regina King became the first Black woman director to have a film selected for the Venice Film Festival with One Night in Miami.

+ An oral history of Lucy Lawless in the Stevie Knicks fajita sketch from SNL.

+ The Walking Dead is ending with season 11 — I honestly don’t know if any of the lezzers are still alive on this show.

+ Lizzo won big at the IHeartRadio Music Awards.

+ Pose will resume filming for season three in NYC in October.

+ And, finally, the Star Trek: Discovery season three trailer.