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.

For nearly a decade, scientists have been hunting for the gravitational wave background, a faint but persistent echo of gravitational waves thought to have been set off by events that took place ...

Supermassive black hum: Scientists discover gravitational wave background that permeates universe The source could be merging black holes — or something more 'mind-bending' ...

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 ...