(L to R) Justice Smith and David Alan Grier stars in writer-director Kobi Libii's "THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES," a Focus Features release. (Photo courtesy of Focus Features) “This role ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The central trope refers to Black movie characters whose sole purpose in a narrative is to aid the white protagonist in his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kobi Libii’s feature debut The American Society of Magical Negroes has the distinction of going for all three, and while it ...

This week, The Opposition with Jordan Klepper aired a two-part segment from Citizen Journalist Kobi Libii, who headed out to Twin Falls, Idaho to investigate what far-right sites like Breitbart ...

Look around on social media, and you’ll find a lot of wince-inducing responses to the title of Kobi Libii’s debut feature, The American Society of Magical Negroes, ranging from people offended that it ...

Kobi Libii knew “The American Society of Magical Negroes” would be controversial. After all, the film is a critique of the “magical negro,” the cinematic trope where Black characters are constructed ...

The writer and director of “The American Society of Magical Negroes” has made a satire that may feel primed to be provocative. He responds to some of the discourse. By Christopher Kuo In “The American ...

Focus Features has set a March 22nd theatrical release date for The American Society of Magical Negroes, a satirical comedy marking the feature directorial debut of Kobi Libii, which stars Justice ...

Sundance has a long history of screening films that tackle issues of race in the U.S. from every possible angle. Some are angry (Birth of a Nation, 2016), some satirical (Dear White People, 2014), and ...