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Demetrius Patterson is a TV and news freelance writer for The Hollywood Reporter. Patterson’s writing has been published in Variety, JAZZIZ, Harvard University’s African American National Biography, Black Radio Exclusive (BRE) and The Chicago Defender. In the ‘90s, the award-winning journalist also wrote a syndicated jazz column for Gannett News Service. Patterson graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a degree in Communication/Journalism. He was also a fellow at Ohio University E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.
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Boots Riley is sharing his approach to his genre-defying mystical limited series — an anti-capitalist satire — that drops on Prime Video Friday, I’m a Virgo. The Sorry to Bother You director, writer and musician, and vocal supporter of the ongoing writers strike, aims to spur action with his tale of a 13-foot protagonist, played […]
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‘Swarm’ Boss Janine Nabers Peels Back the Layers of True Crime-Inspired Series and Its Antihero
[This story contains spoilers to the entire season of Swarm.] Following this weekend’s release of Swarm, viewers on social media are still abuzz (and attempting to recover) from analyzing the performance of Dominique Fishback as Andrea “Dre” Greene, a strangely warped sweet-faced psychopath serial killer in Amazon Prime Video’s new binge watch. And if you […]
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