People. Black people were just so absent in Science Fiction, and its a blind spot. Black panther was a massive moment in our culture. They thought it was going to make 700 million. But it actually made 1. 3 billion. So, it had a business impact. It had a community impact. It opened up doors. It showed that these kinds of stories, looking at black speculative fiction, looking at black looking at horror was also highly profitable. Scifi is really a conversation about our humanity and mans relationship to technology and exploring other worlds. Its really exciting to know that more blackcentric Science Fiction is making its way onto the Television Screens finally. Black people have always loved Science Fiction and have always loved fantasy. We just didnt know it. When you think of how broad that landscape is, to not include every single individual that is participating in the world, then its a lie. We have millions and millions of stories that need to be told. And us getting our due is lit
every body. ha ha ha ha ha. okay.. right. they use their might to spyne on the right. a new report from the houseciar you did theory committee reveals that under the guise of investigating six, the feds duked banks to do a search of transactions for indicatorsja of homegrown violent extremists. problenuary h thm is, according to congressman jim jordan, the treasury department asked the banktremistsed thes to condh using terms like trump and maga in an effort to track gun purchases. they also asked the bank tos to query terms like query terms. query like. yeah, i don t knowd the bank lis pro shops and sporting goods. so in other words, if you so much as bought a jockstrap, then you could have ended up on a federal list of domestic violent extremists. luckily, i did my own takes two of yarn. but domestic violent extremists, that s quite a mouthful right. why don t we just shorten it to what the feds really mean? republicans now, of course, they re using january 6 to justify a
in about ten minutes, we ll have this week s edition of newswatch. but first on bbc news, click. 0h. there was another whiff of something there. sniffs. i don t know. grapefruit? is it the sea? today, i m having a rather smelly experience while trying to solve a mystery from history. this is one of the most famous shipwrecks in the world. the mary rose was king henry viii s favourite warship and in 1516, while battling the french, it sunk under mysterious circumstances. for more than 400 years, it lay on its side at the bottom of the river solent but amazingly, the starboard half was preserved under the silt. which led, in 1982, to one of the most complex maritime salvage operations in history. and now, exactly a0 years on, i have donned a bluetooth connected backpack that will release different smells as i chase around the mary rose museum in portsmouth, trying to work out why the ship went down. right in the bowels of the ship now and i m smelling tar. it s like the roadwor
network grind to a complete halt as 50,000 workers stage a walk out in the biggest rail strike so far over pay and conditions. millions of people in the uk begin paying more for gas and electricity as the new energy price cap comes into force. making landfall in the us for a second time hurricane ian strikes south carolina with heavy rain and powerful winds after leaving a trail of devastation in florida and cuba. now on bbc news, click. in the back of a driverless cabs. car: take a seat in the back and close the doors. - buckle up and get ready to ride. i m just glad that was james, not me. meanwhile, spencer has been sniffing out the secrets of a shipwreck. 0oh. stale beer. is that you or me? definitely not me! and on the subject of smells. this is the first ever bbc click perfume. this is not nice. right, let s go for a ride. they have been a long time coming, but in the last few years, we have watched self driving cars get closer and closer. we ve just pulled out in
annexed the area. russia s defence ministry admits its troops have withdrawn to avoid being encircled. it isjust troops have withdrawn to avoid being encircled. it is just 2a hours after donetsk was formally annexed by moscow. as conservatives gather in birmingham for their annual conference, prime minister liz truss admits there has been disruption in the uk economy following the mini budget. a man held in iran for nearly five years on spying charges before being released alongside nazanin zaghari ratcliffe says he s dedicating his london marathon run to the people of iran and its prisoners. more than 50,000 rail workers are taking industrial action today, causing the biggest strike disruption on the railways this year. 0nly around 11% of the usual saturday timetable will be able to run. members of four unions are taking part in the strike in a long running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. some parts of the country are still seeing trains, and others none at all. 0ur