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Review of Lee Daniels’ The United States vs. Billie Holiday
The whole time I watched Lee Daniels’ The United States vs. Billie Holiday I thought, “Ignorance is bliss,” an adage to which I used to wholeheartedly subscribe. And now I know that after so many years of breathing (an accomplishment) … Continue reading
Posted in Afro-Caribbean, review, film, black women
Tagged film review, Nina Simone, The United States vs. Billie Holiday
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Review of George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue
For the past few months I’ve been reading George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir Manifesto (2020). You may be asking why it would take me several months to read a book that is a little under 300 … Continue reading
The Little Things: Nope
I have immense respect for Denzel Washington and his acting chops. It doesn’t hurt that he is a particularly gorgeous black man. The last thing I saw him in was August Wilson’s Fences (2016) starring opposite Viola Davis. Then I … Continue reading
Review of Joy Harjo’s Crazy Brave
For the longest time I had the United States poet laureate, Joy Harjo’s memoir, Crazy Brave (2013), in my Amazon wishlist. The book’s cover, which features the profile of a beautiful raven haired woman, made me want to know more … Continue reading
Celebrating True Love: Rev. angel Kyodo williams and Frederick Douglass
This past Sunday was Valentine’s Day, celebrated far and wide by millions of people, or at least hundreds of thousands. But what many do not remember is that February 14th is also the chosen birthday of the great abolitionist and … Continue reading
Review of Men Sa Lanme Di by Arnold Antonin
Men Sa Lanme Di (Ainsi Parla la Mer) (So Spoke the Sea), a short by the wonderful Arnold Antonin, is a meditation on and by Mother Ocean. The title echoes that of the celebrated noiriste, Jean Price Mars’ ethnographic study, … Continue reading
Remember Our Power: An Inspired Nudge from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A few weeks ago I wrote about the magnificence of Nnedi Okorafor’s short story “Mother of Invention.” I’ve also been reading Sonya Renee Taylor’s The Body is Not an Apology, which I mentioned in a post a few weeks before … Continue reading
The People’s Inauguration is Live!
From The People’s Inauguration Website America is in transition—will we birth a multiracial democracy where every person is safe and free? The answer lies with us. Valarie Kaur, renowned civil rights activist, author, and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project, … Continue reading
And Still We Rise!: Amanda Gorman and the People’s Inauguration
Amanda Gorman, National Youth Poet Laureate, read her “The Hill We Climb” at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Dr. Joseph Biden, Wednesday, January 20, 2021 Now 22-years-old, West LA raised Gorman was named Youth Poet … Continue reading
I’m Calling It! Person of the Year: Ms. Stacey Abrams!!
We’ve had a heck of a year—the dying dinosaur continues to roar. But civilization, true civilization, forges ahead. And Black women are leading the way. Case in point: Ms. Stacey Abrams, a beacon of a civil democratic society in which … Continue reading
Posted in African-American, black women, culture, film, history
Tagged Ella Fitzgerald, Fair Fight, Georgia, Person of the Year, Stacey Abrams
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