SUMMERS: That was from the aptly named "Tolkien Black Folks," one podcast by Black Nerds Create. The group's co-founder, Bayana Davis, joins us now to give a preview of Black Magical History Month.

The new film serves as a satire around the trope of the Magical Negro, role seen throughout historical American cinema where the Black character’s sole purpose was to serve a white character ...

The Magical Negroes, so proud to have single-handedly "raised the Black life expectancy," at least according to society head Dede (Nicole Byer), exist in a world where the likes of Harriet Tubman ...

The film, "The American Society of Magical Negroes," by Focus Features, is described on its website as a "fresh, satirical comedy about a young man, Aren, who is recruited into a secret society of ...

They work by vaporizing an amount of solid ink and letting that condense on the paper, so they may leave black halos around print as well. Also, they're pretty rare.