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Topic: Amandla Stenberg

Amandla Stenberg in "Star Wars: The Acolyte" (Lucasfilm/Disney+)

New Star Wars makes us question the Jedi

Melanie McFarland
MJ (Zendaya) prepares to freefall with Spider-man in "Spiderman: No Way Home" (Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures)

Why Black fantasy casting angers racists

Melanie McFarland
The Eddy (Netflix)

Le sigh! "The Eddy" mixes jazz & misery

Melanie McFarland
Amandla Stenberg as Starr Carter in "The Hate U Give" (20th Century Fox)

Stenberg shines in "The Hate U Give"

Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
Amandla Stenberg as Maddy and Nick Robinson as Olly in "Everything Everything" (Courtesy Warner Bros. Entertainment)

The dying girl plot wears thin

Nico Lang

Author Nicola Yoon

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Andy Cohen (Evan Agostini/invision/ap)

Andy Cohen steps in it

Rachel Kramer Bussel
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