Because I’m attracted to tales of romance or redemption, it’s not surprising that I love Beauty and the Beast. It is, after all, a fairy tale that combines both romance and redemption.
But that doesn’t mean I love every...
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01 March 2017
Even though its subject matter is completely different, I can’t help comparing A United Kingdom to 2016’s Hidden Figures.
Both films uncover an obscure chapter in the history of racial injustice. And both films are fascinating...
31 January 2017
Do you prefer to have your cinematic guilt and grief delivered with a Boston accent? If so, you might enjoy the Oscar-nominated Manchester by the Sea. (Well, maybe “enjoy” is the wrong verb, since Jimmy Fallon accurately described it as...
22 January 2017
I constantly remind the students in my African American history classes that if you are poor and white in America, especially if you are rural or southern, the only difference is that you are not black. We have long known that poor...
16 January 2017
Most Americans never learned that there was slavery in the northern United States. Half of all slave voyages docked in tiny Rhode Island, and slave owner James DeWolf of Bristol, Rhode Island was said to be the second...
04 January 2017
Hidden Figures tells a fact-based story so fascinating that you wonder why it hasn’t been told until now. Of course, if it had been, they would have had to change the title.
“Hidden Figures” refers to complex mathematical...
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