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For Colored Girls: Holding Everyone Accountable
I am reluctant to write anything about Tyler Perry’s cinematic interpretation of Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Was Enuf. I saw it, thought there were brilliant as well as heavy-handed moments, but over all it sits in that nebulous part of my mind where things that neither moved [...]
Read moreThe Roe Effect
I’m not going to expound too much on the short film, The Roe Effect, which was written and directed by New Orleans native Kiel Adrian Scott. Suffice to say I was deeply moved and affected by the film, as well as the deft and nuanced directing. Scott could easily have been heavy handed given the [...]
Read moreBeing Precious
In 1996, as I read Sapphire’s graphic and idiosyncratic novel Push, I was in agony. Too much of Claireece Precious Jones’ life was cutting me to the bone and there were times when picking up the novel felt like visiting an all too familiar insane asylum. You see, my mother said things like to me [...]
Read moreThe Joys of Cable
Before my full attention was kidnapped by the arrival of the greatest tussle for a presidential nomination I have ever seen, I was having an ongoing battle with myself about whether I should keep my digital cable subscription. To not have a television, or to profess to never really watching the one you have, has [...]
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