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It's visibly aware of its comment on society and blackness and brings up the question, how black is black enough to survive the Blackening?

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2023

Leaning into satire, the Blackening takes a look at the history of black people in horror films through a lens of social consciousness.

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2023

Comedian Jermaine Flower articulated the funny found in this flawed history when I sat down with him on "Salon Talks" to talk about "The Blackening."

From Salon • Jun. 21, 2023

His newest film, Tim Story's "The Blackening," is a horror-comedy that takes the history of the Black person dying first head on.

From Salon • Jun. 21, 2023

Woe, I see the wild wind wreak Its wrath upon thy rosy bloom, Winter plough thy rounded cheek, Cloud and darkness close in gloom; Blackening over, and forever, Youth's serene and silver river!

From The Poems of Schiller — First period by Schiller, Friedrich