Welcome back to This Week in Black Twitter, your weekly digest of the happenings on Black Twitter and cultural conversations on the web. Topics will span the gamut — pop culture, politics, sports, lifestyles and everything in between. This week: Unapologetic blackness in Netflix's "Luke Cage," Kid Cudi inspires #YouGoodMan and #GetOut terrifies.
1. If you're a Marvel fan and black, then you probably spent the entire weekend binge-watching Netflix's "Luke Cage."
From the nearly all-black cast, to the cultural references, to the soundtrack, "Luke Cage" has been deemed "the blackest thing Marvel has ever done."
In a time where police killings of people of color are so prevalent, having a storyline centered around a bulletproof black man is significant, Lawrence Ware writes for the Root.
"To have a show that decenters whiteness and places a black man and black culture at its core forces those watching to see the humanity in those who inhabit black bodies. So committed is this show to expressing a black politic that about 30 minutes into the first episode, Alfre Woodard ... says the phrase 'Black lives matter' with emotion and conviction," he writes.
Not to mention the fact that Cage's hooded sweatshirt was included as an ode to Trayvon Martin.
Because of the lack of white people, Twitter trolls have apparently been calling the show racist, which got shut down pretty quickly.
But some weren't happy with the reviews, particularly The New York Times'.
2. On Tuesday, Kid Cudi posted on Facebook about his decision to check himself into rehab for "depression and suicidal urges."
"Its been difficult for me to find the words to what Im about to share with you because I feel ashamed. ... I am not at peace. I haven't been since you've known me. If I didn't come here, I wouldve done something to myself. I simply am a damaged human swimming in a pool of emotions everyday of my life," he wrote.
Fellow artists wished him well.
His candor prompted a discussion about mental health online.
"The thought of shutting everything down and admitting to the world that you don't know how to make yourself happy is an incredibly daunting task. As black boys, we are raised to believe that only our inner fortitude is what will carry us through difficult periods, just like it did our forefathers when the system was intentionally rigged to break our spirit," Yates wrote.
On Twitter, Cudi's post inspired #YouGoodMan.
3. During the BET Hip-Hop Awards, viewers saw the trailer for the horror film "Get Out." And some people were scared out of their wits, because unlike Freddy Krueger and the Creeper (from "Jeepers Creepers"), racism is real.
Written and directed by "Key and Peele" star Jordan Peele, the movie follows a black man as he meets his white girlfriend's parents for the first time.
Peele told Forbes in an interview that "what interested me most about this movie was dealing with racism, really everything from the subtle racism that many people may not know exists on a day to day basis. ... To the more extreme racism and everything in between."