"Houston"

• music Poetry, Power and the Sophisticated Ignorance of "Otis" By Shannon M. Houston July 20, 2016 | 3:01pm
• tv Power's Season Premiere (Thankfully) Refuses to Give Up The Ghost By Shannon M. Houston July 18, 2016 | 5:59pm
• politics Two Difficult Tasks for My Fellow Black Writers: Bring "Lynching" Back, and Keep Writing By Shannon M. Houston July 8, 2016 | 2:42pm
• tv How Orange Is The New Black Used, and Then Failed the Black Lives Matter Movement By Shannon M. Houston July 5, 2016 | 3:29pm
• movies Microbe & Gasoline By Shannon M. Houston June 30, 2016 | 3:00pm
• tv "A Lot of This List is White Guys": The Hollywood Reporter Says Diversity is Hollywood's Problem, Not Theirs By Shannon M. Houston June 22, 2016 | 4:34pm
• tv Orange is the New Black is a Study in Why Black/White "Diversity" Is Not Enough By Shannon M. Houston June 20, 2016 | 3:09pm
• soccer Seven MLS/NWSL Soccer Teams Celebrating Pride By Christine Castano June 15, 2016 | 2:01am
• politics Why Orlando is a National Tragedy, And Chicago is Too By Shannon M. Houston June 14, 2016 | 4:36pm
• books Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing: A Brutal History of "Adoption" for Black Families in America By Shannon M. Houston June 10, 2016 | 4:53pm
• books Homegoing: An Interview with Yaa Gyasi, Author of the Most Powerful Debut Novel of 2016 By Shannon M. Houston June 9, 2016 | 4:39pm
• politics America's War on Women: Fighting The Stanford Rapist and the Culture that Wrought Him By Shannon M. Houston June 6, 2016 | 2:10pm
• music On Adopting Rap Culture, and Why I Told My Son He Can't Say N-i-g-g-a Yet By Shannon M. Houston June 2, 2016 | 2:51pm
• tv Does the Introduction of Jesus on The Path Finale Change the Show? By Shannon M. Houston May 26, 2016 | 2:54pm
• politics The House Passes A New Bill to Protect Federal Police from Harm; Children and Black Lives Can Wait By Shannon M. Houston May 24, 2016 | 7:00pm
• tv Netflix's Lady Dynamite Delivers A Poignant Episode for White People Concerned About Race By Shannon M. Houston May 23, 2016 | 3:23pm
• tv F— the Light: Faith Without Religion on The Path By Shannon M. Houston May 20, 2016 | 5:13pm
• tv On The Carmichael Show and the Comedic Power of Specificity By Shannon M. Houston May 18, 2016 | 12:45pm
• tv Is The Path Ruining One of Its Most Important Characters—And Its Premise, Too? By Shannon M. Houston May 16, 2016 | 5:01pm
• tv Until We All Free: Womanism and the Phenomenal Underground Season Finale By Shannon M. Houston May 12, 2016 | 4:48pm
• tv 13 Unforgettable Quotes from the Characters of Underground By Shannon M. Houston May 11, 2016 | 3:13pm
• tv Drugs, Violence, Politics: Marseille Isn't the French Narcos, But It's Still Good TV By Shannon M. Houston May 9, 2016 | 12:19pm
• tv Rosalee's Favorite Things, Amélie and the Strangest Underground Episode Yet By Shannon M. Houston May 5, 2016 | 6:41pm
• tv I Went to the Enemy's Camp: Rewriting History with the Cast and Creators of Underground By Shannon M. Houston May 4, 2016 | 2:00pm
• tv The Intimacy of Sisterhood Gets the Treatment it Deserves on The Path By Shannon M. Houston May 2, 2016 | 2:06pm
• tv A Bitter Crop: White Super-Predators and the Myth of Agency on Underground By Shannon M. Houston April 27, 2016 | 11:10pm
• politics Honoring the Spirit of Protest on the Anniversary of the Baltimore Riots TIME Cover By Shannon M. Houston April 25, 2016 | 7:45pm
• tv And the Children Shall Lead: Underground Delivers its Most Devastating Episode Yet By Shannon M. Houston April 21, 2016 | 12:54pm
• tv 9 Reasons the Harriet Tubman in Me Needs More TV Critics Watching Underground By Shannon M. Houston April 20, 2016 | 4:12pm
• tv Why Racism Always Trumps Sexism: On Confirmation and The People vs. OJ Simpson By Shannon M. Houston April 19, 2016 | 1:45pm
• movies Echo Park By Shannon M. Houston April 16, 2016 | 12:25pm
• tv No Church in the Wild: Christianity Comes to Underground in "Troubled Water" By Shannon M. Houston April 14, 2016 | 11:12am
• tv Slow Burn Over Binge: The Girlfriend Experience Keeps Getting Curiouser and Curiouser By Shannon M. Houston April 12, 2016 | 4:42pm
• tv The 5 Best Performances from FX's Incredible The People v. O.J. Simpson By Shannon M. Houston April 11, 2016 | 12:26pm
• politics On Bill Clinton and Why Black America Must Do Away with the "Honorary Black" Myth By Shannon M. Houston April 8, 2016 | 2:20pm
• tv Composer Will Bates on Creating Music for the Unusual World of The Path By Shannon M. Houston April 7, 2016 | 3:20pm
• tv An Open Letter to Miss Ernestine, After Underground: "Run and Gun" By Shannon M. Houston April 7, 2016 | 12:00pm
• tv Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Hulu's The Path Tackles One of the Biggest Problems with Religion By Shannon M. Houston April 4, 2016 | 3:25pm
• tv Dinin' Like White Folks: Black Rage as Sacred in Underground Episode Four, "Firefly" By Shannon M. Houston March 31, 2016 | 11:03am
• tv You Don't Own Me: Creators and Killers in Underground Episode Three, "The Lord's Day" By Shannon M. Houston March 24, 2016 | 1:22pm
• movies 9 Rides By Shannon M. Houston March 21, 2016 | 12:14pm
• tv Sensuality and Survival in Underground Episode Two: "War Chest" By Shannon M. Houston March 17, 2016 | 5:03pm
• tv Blood on the Leaves: Black Flesh and American Freedom in the Underground Premiere By Shannon M. Houston March 10, 2016 | 6:58pm
• tv Grammy-Winning Composer Laura Karpman talks Undergound and Music as American History By Shannon M. Houston March 9, 2016 | 2:56pm
• tv Bokeem Woodbine Talks Craft and Bad Black Guys for Fargo’s Year Two DVD Release By Shannon M. Houston February 29, 2016 | 12:12pm
• tv Lexi Alexander Talks Directing Supergirl, and the Unspoken Truths about Women in Hollywood By Shannon M. Houston February 22, 2016 | 3:10pm
• movies 10 Black Directors to Watch in 2016 By Shannon M. Houston February 3, 2016 | 10:41am
• geek Making Black Girl Nerds, And Re-Making TV with Jamie Broadnax By Shannon M. Houston February 2, 2016 | 11:20am
• movies The Force of Finn: A Good [Black] Guy for My Good Guys By Shannon M. Houston January 16, 2016 | 10:59pm
• tv Speaking Pfefferman with Transparent's Jeffrey Tambor, Judith Light and Kathryn Hahn By Shannon M. Houston January 12, 2016 | 12:42pm
• movies Lamb Director Ross Partridge on Man-Made Virtue and Vice By Shannon M. Houston January 7, 2016 | 11:25am
• movies How 2016 Will Redefine the Slave Narrative with Underground and The Birth of a Nation By Shannon M. Houston January 7, 2016 | 11:05am
• tv The 10 Best Web Series of 2015 By Shannon Houston December 31, 2015 | 12:00pm
• tv Transparent: “Bulnerable"/"The Book of Life” By Shannon M. Houston December 28, 2015 | 1:23pm
• movies 2015 Gift Guide for Movie Lovers (pt. 2) By Mark Rabinowitz and Paul Semel and Michael Dunaway and Michael Burgin and Shannon M. Houston December 23, 2015 | 10:27pm
• tv Viewing Inside the Box: TV's 2015 Definitive DVD Gift Guide By Mark Rabinowitz and Shannon M. Houston and Paste Staff December 23, 2015 | 11:00am
• tv Praise Lil' Funyuns: How Master of None Became the 2015 God of Small Things By Shannon M. Houston December 22, 2015 | 1:53pm
• tv Transparent: “Cherry Blossom”/“Mee-Maw” By Shannon M. Houston December 21, 2015 | 1:14pm
• tv Transparent: “Flicky-Flicky Thump-Thump”/"New World Coming” By Shannon M. Houston December 17, 2015 | 8:52am
• tv Transparent: “Kina Hora” By Shannon M. Houston December 14, 2015 | 9:38am
• tv No Shortcut to Truth: An Intimate Conversation with Kevin Carroll of The Leftovers By Shannon M. Houston December 6, 2015 | 7:04pm
• tv Say Hello to the Bad Guy: Joe Morton, Scandal and the Future of TV Villains By Shannon M. Houston November 18, 2015 | 11:32am
• movies Out of My Hand By Shannon M. Houston November 16, 2015 | 12:46pm
• tv Fantasizing Consent: The Leftovers, Rape and TV Criticism By Shannon M. Houston November 8, 2015 | 4:45pm
• books And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin M. Burke By Shannon Houston October 30, 2015 | 2:45pm
• tv The 40 Greatest Cop Shows of All Time By Shannon M. Houston/Paste TV Writers October 23, 2015 | 9:10am
• tv Charlie Murphy Talks Black Jesus, the Comedy Get Down and the Legacy of Rick James By Shannon M. Houston October 16, 2015 | 12:29pm
• tv Survivor’s Remorse: “M.V.P.” By Shannon M. Houston September 6, 2015 | 3:39pm
• tv Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll: "Hard Out Here for a Pimp" By Shannon Houston September 4, 2015 | 3:05pm
• tv Lili Fini Zanuck Talks Queen Latifah and our 20-Year Wait for Bessie By Shannon M. Houston August 26, 2015 | 2:18pm
• tv Survivor’s Remorse: "Grown-Ass Man" By Shannon M. Houston August 23, 2015 | 12:18pm
• tv The Unapologetically Black Comedy of Survivor's Remorse By Shannon M. Houston August 21, 2015 | 1:15pm
• tv Power is Officially a Prestige Drama, So Let’s Talk About Its Woman Problem By Shannon M. Houston August 18, 2015 | 2:13pm
• movies Yes, Even Your Beloved Netflix Has a Race Problem By Shannon M. Houston August 6, 2015 | 12:40pm
• movies Taking Dogma out of Genre with Five Star’s Keith Miller, Primo Grant and John Diaz By Shannon M. Houston August 5, 2015 | 8:16pm
• tv The Strain: “The Silver Angel” By Shannon M. Houston August 3, 2015 | 4:04pm
• tv Dear White People, Here Are 3 Things You Should Do after Watching MTV's White People By Shannon M. Houston July 24, 2015 | 10:21am
• tv An Elegant, Criminal Ghost: Omari Hardwick on Poetry, Power and Black Women Behind the Camera By Shannon M. Houston July 12, 2015 | 3:13pm
• tv The 20 Best TV Shows of 2015 (So Far) By Shannon M. Houston July 7, 2015 | 11:22am
• tv Orange is the New Black: “Tongue-Tied”/“Fear and Other Smells” By Shannon M. Houston July 2, 2015 | 6:08am
• tv Orange is the New Black: “Fake It Till You Fake It..."/“Ching Chong Chang” By Shannon M. Houston June 20, 2015 | 4:38pm
• tv Power Showrunner Courtney Kemp Agboh Talks Season Two, Genre and the Myth Of “Masculine” TV By Shannon M. Houston June 17, 2015 | 3:31pm
• tv Charla Lauriston Talks Clench & Release, Kimmy Schmidt and Hannibal Buress' New Show By Shannon M. Houston June 11, 2015 | 2:43pm
• tv If More TV Rape Scenes Were Written by Quentin Tarantino By Shannon M. Houston June 11, 2015 | 8:49am
• tv Director Jonny Campbell on J.K. Rowling and the Unique Morality of HBO’s The Casual Vacancy By Shannon M. Houston May 25, 2015 | 5:10pm
• movies On the Frontlines of War and Home with Good Kill Director Andrew Niccol By Shannon M. Houston May 25, 2015 | 12:00pm
• tv The Good Wife: “Wanna Partner?” By Shannon M. Houston May 11, 2015 | 2:15pm
• tv The Good Wife: “Don't Fail” By Shannon M. Houston May 4, 2015 | 1:10pm
• tv The Good Wife: “The Deconstruction” By Shannon M. Houston April 27, 2015 | 11:09am
• movies John Travolta Talks Artistry and Emotion in The Forger By Shannon M. Houston April 24, 2015 | 9:45am
• tv The Good Wife: “Winning Ugly” By Shannon M. Houston April 13, 2015 | 1:00pm
• tv The Good Wife: “Loser Edit” By Shannon M. Houston April 6, 2015 | 1:07pm
• movies Chaz Ebert Celebrates Life Itself and Roger Ebert By Shannon M. Houston April 3, 2015 | 12:11pm
• tv The Good Wife: “Undisclosed Recipients” By Shannon M. Houston March 30, 2015 | 12:00pm
• tv The Good Wife: “Red Meat” By Shannon M. Houston March 23, 2015 | 11:38am
• tv Empire Finale: “Die But Once”/“Who I Am” By Shannon M. Houston March 19, 2015 | 1:20pm
• tv The Good Wife: “Open Source” By Shannon M. Houston March 16, 2015 | 4:29pm
• tv Scandal: “The Testimony of Diego Muñoz” By Shannon M. Houston March 13, 2015 | 10:16am
• tv The Good Wife: “Mind's Eye” By Shannon M. Houston March 9, 2015 | 2:12pm
• tv Scandal: “The Lawn Chair” By Shannon M. Houston March 6, 2015 | 9:30am
• tv The Good Wife: “Dark Money” By Shannon M. Houston March 2, 2015 | 11:25am
• style Vintage, Modern, International: How the Women at Archive Home Store Are Doing It All By Shannon M. Houston February 20, 2015 | 10:30am
• tv The New Yorker Presents: "Pilot" By Shannon M. Houston February 17, 2015 | 9:20am
• tv 5 TV Scenes That Had You All In Your Feelings This Week: Heartbreakers, Dream Makers By Shannon M. Houston February 15, 2015 | 5:56pm
• tv Dave Snyder On Collaborative Vision, Alan Cumming, and The New Yorker Presents By Shannon M. Houston February 13, 2015 | 5:58pm
• tv Scandal: “Where's the Black Lady?” By Shannon M. Houston February 6, 2015 | 11:17am
• tv 5 TV Scenes That Had You All in Your Feelings this Week: 'Let's Get Awkward' By Shannon M. Houston January 30, 2015 | 1:02pm
• tv Scandal: “Run” By Shannon M. Houston January 30, 2015 | 10:44am