And she’s back! Though, I suppose for the intent of this newsletter I never went anywhere. Still, a mostly-break was nice. (I still checked my work email a bunch, and I paused my vacation to do Scream stuff, but it was worth it.) Turns out that vacations make you feel? more? invigorated? and? less? tired? who? knew? It’s almost like we’re all going through a perpetual long-form burnout but pretending we’re fine because literally what in tf else are we gonna do?

I DIGRESS! I’ll pop all the Scream stuff at the bottom of this newsletter, we have important business to attend to first.

We’re rolling right into some baby steps today. MLK day was yesterday, but this newsletter goes out on Tuesdays, and it turns out everyone getting the day off didn’t solve systemic racism.

MLK/FBI — Sam Pollard’s 2020 documentary highlights how the FBI harassed MLK via their “investigations.” Stream it on Hulu.

Selma — Ava DuVernay’s breathtaking historical drama focuses on the Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches in 1965. Stream it on Hulu or Peacock.

Eyes on the Prize - America’s Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985 — A 14-part documentary about the 20th-century civil rights movement in the United States. It’s a lot, but it’s worth it. It can be rented on Amazon

These are always gonna be twitter accounts, sorry y'all. Facebook is the debbul, I barely understand tiktok, and that’s not really what instagram is for.

Just a couple of well-earned callouts of organizations saying “happy MLK day” while being complete scrubs. No, finding the respective drags of all the republican senators hiding behind cherrypicked quotes wasn’t worth it.

Scream ruled. You can read my print review here, and I also helped with breaking down That Ending™ and highlighted some of the Easter Eggs. (The Easter Eggs and ending are the only thing on this list that are spoiler-filled for all of the obvious reasons.)

If video’s more your thing, I’ve got the best VO work I’ve done yet in my video review.

And if you’re just looking for some wholesome content, I chatted with the entire cast about their favorite lines of the series. I’d say please enjoy me maintaining my calm as Neve Campbell tells me her favorite Scream line (which is my favorite Scream line), but my incredible video team took mercy on me and kept my fave out of it at that point.