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Lupita Nyongo’s Queen of Katwe movie inspired Ugandan students to perform better on exams — Quartz
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In the study, 1,500 secondary students in Kampala were taken to the cinema to watch either Queen of Katwe or a placebo film, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, about children with supernatural abilities. Queen of Katwe is based on the true story of Phiona Mutesi, a teenager from the Kampala slum of Katwe, who through persistence and determination, goes from selling corn on the street to getting into a top school in the capital so she can play chess.
The students in the study watched the film between one week and one month before taking their national qualifying exams.

Those completing their final year of school who watched Queen of Katwe showed an improvement of 0.13 standard deviations from a previous mock exam and were 6 percentage points more likely to get a place at a public university. Younger

#échecs #film (très chouette) et #selon_une_étude_récente #Disney

Serena Williams Becomes the First Black Female Athlete on Vogue Cover - Women and Hollywood
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Serena Williams has become the ninth black woman to grace the cover of Vogue since 1989, as well as the first black female athlete ever to do so. The tennis star’s fashion showcase comes eight months after Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o appeared on Vogue’s July 2014 cover.

Williams is a welcome sight on news stands, of course. As the top athlete in her sport, she deserves to be recognized for her achievements, and both her darker skin and athletic build are refreshing deviations from the Vogue norm. Role model-wise, she’s exactly the kind of hyper-accomplished woman we’d love for female-targeted publications to feature more regularly. But we also can’t help being a bit miffed that women of color like Williams or Nyong’o — or previous cover models like Beyonce, Rihanna, Oprah Winfrey, and Michelle Obama — need to be so much more successful than their white counterparts to “deserve” to be on Vogue (ahem, three-time cover model Blake Lively).

#presse_féminine #mode #racisme

Star Wars : Episode VII Adds Academy Award Winner Lupita Nyong’o and Game of Thrones’ Gwendoline Christie | #starwars.com
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Ok, le casting du prochain Star Wars vient de gagner deux niveaux de coolitude.(Permalink)

Lupita Nyong’o and the Mexicans
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“How much does the Oscar belong to #Mexico?” a reporter asked actress Lupita Nyong’o the day after the 2014 Academy Awards. Her answer “It all belongs to me.” A few months earlier, when “12 Years a Slave” premiered at the Toronto International #FILM Festival, she was more diplomatic. She explained that she was born in Mexico, that her […]

#MEDIA #identity #Kenya #Lupita_Nyong'o #Oscars #racism

Star Wars and the 4 Ways Science Fiction Handles Race
The genre has no problem imagining a future full of spaceships and aliens. A racially integrated society, though?
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It’d be great news if the buzz about 12 Years a Slave’s Lupita Nyong’o being cast in the upcoming Star Wars sequel is true. Casting someone whose breakout role explicitly and thoughtfully engaged with the African-American experience may also, hopefully, kick off a discussion about race in Star Wars and in sci-fi more generally. The franchise has often been criticized for its clueless, tone-deaf use of caricature, especially the nods to blackface minstrelsy in Jar Jar Binks. More importantly, Star Wars encapsulates a pop-culture tradition of space operas that can easily invent spaceships and robots and aliens, but that helplessly acquiesce to old, stereotypical treatments of gender and race. Why does that matter? Sci-fi is at least in part a dream of a different world and a different future. When that future unthinkingly reproduces current inequities, it seems like both a missed opportunity and a failure of imagination.

#sf #s.f. #science-fiction #cinéma #représentations #egalité #minorités

GASP #Daily_Mail’s found out about Lupita’s Dark, Sexy past
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Breaking News from the Daily Mail: Lupita Nyong’o can play a sexpot onscreen, and not just roles that call on her to look downtrodden and enslaved. In an article with a title that leaves little to the imagination (“Before she was famous: Lingerie-clad Oscar winner #Lupita_Nyong'o juggled two men in sexually-charged Kenyan soap opera”), The Mail Online reveals that Nyong’o, whose “exotic beauty and heart-wrenching portrayal of tormented slave Patsey in #12_Years_a_Slave catapulted her into stardom” is “hiding” the dark secret of her sexy past as a soap actor in “Shuga, a sexually-charged MTV Base Africa soap opera in which she juggled two men.” Call the Oscar (...)

#FILM #MEDIA #TELEVISION #Shuga

Lupita Nyong’o & Jared Leto partied with Terry Richardson in Paris: Nooo! - Cele|bitchy
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They were both in Paris for the MiuMiu show, and I guess they’re still there, and they’re still partying and hanging together. Only now it’s gone from a relatively cute “I wonder if they’re together” gossip story to “OMG, Lupita, you in danger girl” story. Because now Jared has introduced Lupita to his very good friend, Uncle Terry Richardson. RUN LUPITA RUN.

#Terry_Richardson

#Dencia’s One-Sided Beef with Lupita Nyong’o
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Right before the Academy Awards, Camaroonian-born pop star and skin-lightener shill Dencia began tweeting a series of attack-mode responses to a supposed slight by Lupita Nyong’o.

#FILM #OPINION #Lupita_Nyong'o #skin_bleaching #The_Oscars_2014

Lupita Nyong’o : « je priais Dieu pour être plus claire de peau » - L’Entre-Deux by Fashizblack.com
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Je me souviens de l’époque où moi aussi, je ne me sentais pas belle. Quand j’allumais la télévision, je ne voyais que des peaux pâles, on se moquait de moi parce que mon teint était aussi sombre que la nuit. Ma seule prière à Dieu, le faiseur de miracles, était que je me lève le matin avec une peau plus claire. Le lendemain matin, j’étais si pressée de voir ma nouvelle couleur de peau que je ne me regardais même pas avant de me retrouver devant un miroir. Et tous les jours, c’était la même déception : j’étais aussi sombre que le jour d’avant. J’ai essayé de négocier avec Dieu, je lui ai dit que j’arrêterais de voler les cubes en sucre la nuit s’il me donnait ce que je voulais, que j’écouterais tout ce que ma mère me dirait, que je ne perdrais plus jamais le pull de mon école s’il me rendait plus claire de peau. Mais je suppose que mes propositions n’impressionnaient pas vraiment Dieu parce qu’il ne m’a jamais écouté.

What we don’t talk about when we spent time learning about Lupita Nyong’o’s family and getting her name right
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I just couldn’t help myself. I had to write a follow-up post in response to ”How To Say Lupita Nyong’o.” While I think the post is interesting and I liked that all the clips are available to see the repeated mispronunciation of Lupita Nyong’o’s surname, these clips got me riled up for many other and rather […]

#FILM #12_Years_a_Slave #Jimmy_Fallon #Lupita_Nyong'o #Sherri_Shephard #Whoopi_Goldberg

What we don’t talk about when we spend time getting to know Lupita Nyong’o’s family and saying her name right
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I just couldn’t help myself. I had to write a follow-up post in response to ‘How To Say Lupita Nyong’o’. While I think the post is interesting and I liked that all the clips are available to see the repeated mispronunciation of Lupita Nyong’o’s surname, these clips got me riled up for many other and […]

#FILM #12_Years_a_Slave #Jimmy_Fallon #Lupita_Nyong'o #Sherri_Shephard #Whoopi_Goldberg

How to say Lupita Nyong’o
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At the moment, everyone seems to be obsessed with the stunning Kenyan actress #Lupita_Nyong'o. And for good reason. Her heart-wrenching performance in the #FILM #12_Years_a_Slave has won her critical acclaim, while her humility and beauty have won countless hearts. She’s been on most major talk shows and is lighting up every magazine cover possible. Yet for all the attention, many people just can’t say her name properly. Quite a few don’t even seem to care enough to try. With the Oscars just weeks away, please do your research, stretch your tongue and practice saying Lupita’s name. After all the butcherings of her name, Lupita posted a video on instagram of herself to guide you with the pronunciation, even saying it an American accent. Look out for that soft (...)

#MEDIA #Chiwetel_Ejiofor #Craig_Ferguson #Jimmy_Fallon #Jimmy_Kimmel #Jonah_Hill #Kenya #Matt_Damon #pronounciation #Queen_Laitifah #Sherri_Shephard #The_Oscars_2014

12 Years a Slave, critique
▻http://myscreens.fr/2014/cinema/12-years-a-slave-critique

Mais si 12 Years a Slave rate le coche du côté de son histoire et de la manière de la raconter, il n’en est pas de même avec les comédiens. L’éternel « second rôle black de service » , Chiwetel Ejiofor, a enfin l’occasion de montrer l’étendue de son talent, en particulier dans une scène contemplative où il se met à regarder longuement le spectateur d’un air désespéré (ajoutant encore du pathos à la mise en scène lourde de Steve McQueen) alors que Michael Fassbender confirmera toute l’étendue de son talent dans le rôle d’un esclavagiste alcoolique et que la jeune révélation Lupita Nyong’o s’illustre dans un rôle difficile. A côté d’eux, Benedict Cumberbatch est assez transparent et Brad Pitt, pour deux minutes de présence en ange-gardien (il est producteur, il lui fallait bien un petit rôle), est assez ridicule et inutile, renforçant le caractère passif du héros.

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#esclavage #histoire #États-Unis