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This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to announce the next film, "The American Society of Magical Negroes." The film follows a young man, Aren, who is recruited into a secret society of magical Black people who dedicate their lives to a cause of utmost importance: making white people's lives easier. The random topic this week is about the rap beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. However, as there are so many other shows talking about the lyrical contest, we decided to take a different angle on what this beef means in a larger context. Frankly, how it and many other rap beefs tend to squeeze women in the middle as named victims, weaponized sexual encounters, and even the stripping of their humanity to be used as merely objects for these men to manipulate for the end goal of winning the contest in the court of public opinion.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns with special guest, Juwan, from the "Edit That Out" Podcast. The hosts tackle in-depth the 2023 Ava DuVernay directed film, "Origin." DuVernay's film explores author Isabel Wilkerson's tremendous personal tragedy that sets her on a path of global investigation and discovery as she writes her book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Over the course of the film, Wilkerson travels throughout Germany, India, and the United States to research the caste systems in each country's history. The film stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Niecy Nash-Betts, Audra McDonald, Vera Farmiga, Blair Underwood, and Nick Offerman. 

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to announce the next film that will be explored. Next week the movie will be the director Ava DuVernay's 2023 "Origin" based on the American journalist Isabel Wilkerson's nonfiction book "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents." The film itself is described as "The unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions."  The random topic of the week is about Steven A. Smith's controversial comments about how he believes that Black Americans are sympathetic to what Donald Trump is going through as he is dealing with the American justice system.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to discuss the 2003 relationship comedy, "Deliver Us From Eva" starring Gabrielle Union, LL Cool J, Duane Martin, Essense Atkins, Meagan Good, Mel Jackson, Dartanyan Edmonds, Robinne Lee, and Kym Whitley. The film follows three sisters who's lives are overseen by their overbearing older sister to the dismay of the men who they are in relationships with. The men hire a known ladies' man to date and distract the overbearing sister in hopes of getting their own relationships back on tract.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to announce the next film, "Deliver Us from Eva." The film follows Eva who doesn't let her 3 sisters' men push them around. She's always butting in. How to pacify Eva? Find her a man. The men pay a playboy to be that man. The problem is - he falls in love with Eva. The random topic this week is all about more accusation about Sean "Diddy" Combs after having his two mansions raided by the Feds. Is Diddy the monster we think he is, are we focused on the right parts of this story as a community, lionizing celebrities, and much more.

This week on Black on Black Cinema, the crew returns to discuss the 2023 comedy drama film, "American Fiction." The film follows a novelist named Monk (Jeffrey Wright) who's fed up with the establishment profiting from Black entertainment and decides to use a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain. The conversations around the film deal with issues of stereotyping, appropriation, balancing the types of stories that are told of Black people by Black people in media, and much more.