Not since President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty have we seen so much attention paid to poor white people. The iconic Life magazine photo of Johnson sitting on the front porch of a poor white Appalachian family...
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01 August 2017
I wasn’t bowled over by last year’s Ghostbusters remake, which seemed like a waste of a good cast. Even some of its fans seemed to like it mainly because it broke new cinematic ground by portraying women as competent professionals...
07 July 2017
In 1926, W.E.B. Du Bois said “The Plays of a real Negro theatre must be…About us…By us…For us…Near us.”
This is the philosophy that is behind the 5th Annual Columbus Black Theatre Festival (CBTF). The CBTF event is organized to...
06 July 2017
Leftist black activists don’t get represented in Hollywood productions much, unless they represent the more mainstream Civil Rights movement. All Eyez On Me gives the radical leftist angle on rap icon Tupac Shakur’s family,...
04 July 2017
It’s so nice when a movie gives you more than you expect. That’s the case with The Hero, a gentle tale that continually surprises us.
The biggest surprise involves the relationship that develops between 71-year-old actor Lee...
13 June 2017
Like many black people, I grew up knowing families in which the color of everyone’s skin was different, sometimes dramatically so. I also have people in my own family on both sides who at first glance, appear to be white, but who...
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