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Good Morning America goes birding with Chris Cooper in Central Park, the black man who recorded a disturbing confrontation with a white woman in New York City’s Central Park a few weeks ago, as he returns to the park for the first time since the incident.

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man is an episoding YouTube series by Emmanuel Acho, seeking to educate and inform. Guests have included Matthew McConnaughey.

The Pause is P&G’s new spot, highlighting the struggle of hesitation that the LGBTQ+ community experiences every day about whether to hide.

Beyoncé releases Black Parade for Juneteenth, to benefit small black-owned businesses: a song about celebrating shared joy and power. Check it out!

Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted has been a great watch so far, though we’re surprised at the amount of extreme sports Ramsay’s getting up to in the name of food.

Demon Souls for PS5 is a remake of the FromSoftware classic for the PlayStation 3, made under the supervision of SCE Japan Studio.

The Miles Morales Spiderman game was a long time in coming: we loved Into the Spiderverse. This might be the first Spiderman game for us.

Horizon: Forbidden West is one of the PS5 announcement games, a gorgeous-looking continuation to the hit game Horizon: Zero Dawn.

The PS5 reveal is here! If you’d asked us, we’d have thought (without branding) that it was Apple’s new console or something…

Da 5 Bloods is a new Netflix film by Spike Lee, following a group of Black Vietnam war American veterans as they return to Vietnam. Via ABC:

The director’s latest Joint, an old-timer buddy movie that reckons with the experiences of Black American Vietnam veterans, might share an unmistakable theme with recent events but, to restrict its resonance to the current political climate — or worse, “the moment” — does a disservice to its ambitious historical scope, which serves as a reminder that the systemic neglect of African Americans has been a stain on the national character for hundreds of years.