Nine Sixteenths (of a second)
At the 2004 Superbowl, Justin Timberlake exposed Janet Jackson’s breast and nipple to a huge live TV audience for nine sixteenths of a second. This brief moment derailed Jackson’s career for many years, while Timberlake’s thrived.
Nine Sixteenths unpacks the rise, fall and rise again of Jackson and what this has to say about how black women are treated by the media.