News Source: Denver Post
| 26 days ago
At first, the tagline for "The Color Purple" seems so, well, corny. So what a revelation the boundless and deep production at the Aurora Fox proves to be. Directed by donnie l. betts with a sensitivity to the issue of sexual and emotional abuse but
News Source: The Progressive
| 28 days ago
Walker tells the story of Celie, an illiterate black woman living in the South in the 1930s. She is pregnant at 14 with the first of two of her stepfather's children. He then gives Celie to a man who needs someone to clean house and raise his
News Source: SF Bay View
| 2 months ago
Popular Tags Archives Feeds March 21, 2013 by Jean Damu Robert Chrisman and the internationally acclaimed The Black Scholar journal (TBS) are principle beacons of achievement and hope within the movement to create Black Studies departments and
News Source: Herald Net
| 3 months ago
But actually, it refers to the idea of Mumia Abu-Jamal's longevity in practicing said activism. The phrase comes courtesy of that incorrigible pundit Cornel West, one of the many talking heads in this worshipful bio. If the name does not set off any
News Source: SF Gate
| 3 months ago
Michael Toms, the longtime host of the radio program "New Dimensions," which explores issues of faith, science, social change and healing, died at a nursing facility in Santa Rosa on Jan. 24. Mr. Toms, who had been in failing health for more than a
News Source: Village Voice
| 3 months ago
Barnstorming "race films" of yore and contemporaneous blaxploitation were ghettos of cheap opportunism compared to these movies, a tributary of the "personal" indie-film waterway sourced from John Cassavetes's Shadows (1959). A revolutionary esprit
News Source: Dlisted
| 3 months ago
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News Source: Miami Herald
| 3 months ago
Scene in the Tropics With Leonardo DiCaprio on an extended Miami vacation, members of his entourage of famous guy friends have been stopping by to pay homage to him and, more likely says our spy, to meet and make out with some of Miami's hot women,