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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 moreNothing to Envy
This weekend I traveled to a place I know very little about: North Korea. It was not a journey I’d expected to take. In fact, it was on a whim that I downloaded Barbara Demick’s affecting nonfiction book, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, to my Kindle on Saturday night. Earlier in the [...]
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 moreDelving into "He Art: Pieces of A Whole"
New York-based poet Judith D. Angeles’ first chapbook of poems, He Art: Pieces of a Whole is an intensely personal walk through heart break and the agony of healing. Gathered together by several motifs (food, sheets, tears, screams, smoke) that bind the 13 pieces to each other, He Art opens with the eponymous poem, wasting [...]
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