41 Black Actors Who Are Not Playing a Thug in Their Upcoming Roles: a blog of black actors taking on non-thug roles.

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The blog, 41 Black Actors Who Are Not Playing a Thug in Their Upcoming Roles, was launched Wednesday night by The Root and is available at NonThugs.tumblr.com.

“We know that Hollywood is full of talented black actors and actresses, so why do we have to keep seeing them play thugs, gangsters, drug dealers or some other negative stereotype?” asked The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., in announcing the initiative. “We hope that this new Tumblr will demonstrate the range of films coming out this summer that feature black actors in non-thug roles.”

The blog features more than 40 images from films featuring black actors and actresses such as Forest Whitaker (playing a U.S. president in Lee Daniels’ The Butler), Michael B. Jordan (who stars as an aspiring Olympian in Fruitvale Station) and Gabourey Sidibe (who plays a young nurse seeking love in The Reluctant Fundamentalist).

“I think the most amazing thing about this list is that it took us hours to compile,” said Danielle Belton, The Root’s managing editor, who put the blog together with fellow staffer Yesha Callahan after reading a Washington Post article by Alyssa Rosenberg about the

So I have this blog where I’ve been rounding up all the black actors who are not playing thugs in their upcoming roles. If you care about this sort of thing, here are some of the last entries.

Idris Elba will play a gang leader with a penchant for poetry in The Devil All the Time, and also a detective in Hex.

Janelle Monae will play a covert operative in Antebellum, and also an astronaut in Welcome to Marwen.

Regina Hall will play a cheerleading coach in Little, and also a detective in Shaft.

Michael B. Jordan will play a warlord battling aliens in Raising Dion, and also an attorney on Just Mercy.

Daniel Kaluuya will play an assassin with a conscience in Queen & Slim, and also the son of an ultra-wealthy family on The Upper World.

Sterling K Brown will play an FBI agent on This Is Us, and also an attorney on Just Mercy.

Danai Gurira will play a queen on Black Panther, and also an ex-wife who won’t let her ex be happy in The Visitor from Planet Omicron.

Amandla Stenberg will play a teenager who gets shipped off to a reform school for

Black Actors is a blog that seeks to offer up-to-date casting announcements and other news related to Black actors. This blog is a continuation of the former Black Actors blog which ran from 2005 to 2008.

1. Lawrence Fishburne as Perry White in Man of Steel

2. Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson in 42

3. Idris Elba as Heimdall in Thor: The Dark World and Thor

4. Michael B. Jordan as Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four (2015)

5. Wesley Snipes as Blade in the Blade trilogy

6. Zoe Saldana as Uhura in Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek, and Guardians of the Galaxy

7. Forest Whitaker as Zuri in Marvel’s Black Panther (TBD)

8. Will Smith as Nicky in Collateral Beauty

9. Amandla Stenberg as Rue in The Hunger Games

10. Halle Berry as Catwoman in Catwoman

11. Angelina Jolie as Fox in Wanted

12. Viola Davis as Amanda Waller in Suicide Squad (2016) and Suicide Squad (TBD)

13. Chris Rock as Marty the zebra in Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted and Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa

14. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Fassbender are all starring in Doctor Strange (2016)

15. Chadwick Boseman will star as Th

“Washington, who is currently starring in the movie “Fences,” is playing an African-American psychologist named Dr. Roman J. Israel. He works behind the scenes of a small law firm and his life begins to change when the firm’s lead attorney dies.”

And here’s the thing, I could show you a picture of every one of them with a gun in their hand. But I’m not going to do that. Because that would be racist.