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Wrapping up the Rewind of my #WB100 Black History Month posts from 2024. I made a few additions from my original posts that I missed from last year, and one that definitely should be mentioned even though it premiered after the #WB100 Project was over, and I felt it deserved a mention. And now, the exciting conclusion. - jh   Lackawanna Blues (HBO Films, 2005) "They gave me that bit of themselves that they felt was their best. And the blues I heard & the stories they told will live inside of me forever." Lackawanna Blues is a poignant Emmy-winning drama based on Ruben Santiago-Hudson's play about his childhood in New York. ATL , 2006 "My Pops used to always say dreamin' is the luxury of children, and that I should enjoy it. And he was right." ATL is a great coming-of-age story with a stellar cast about teens in Atlanta on the cusp of adulthood & still figuring out this crazy thing called life. ‪ Class of 3000 (Cartoon Network Studios/Tom Lynch...

Despite what the current Administration will tell you, February is still Black History Month in the United States.  Black history still matters.  Black stories matter.  And yes, Black lives matter. If you haven’t rolled your eyes and tuned out of this article after recoiling and seething at the thought of someone merely typing those three words let alone uttering it out loud, thank you for staying wide awake.  When I was a kid back in the 1980s, there weren’t many animated shows that had Black characters on it, and the ones that did had them as sidekicks to the main characters, barely making a peep, and largely in the background. Nearly everything else relied on the same, safe default White male lead.  While there’s nothing really wrong with that, sometimes, viewers want to identify with a character that comes from the same cultural background, and the first one that really did that for me was... *sighs*...   Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids .  Look,...