Two Americans: Two Citizens Face to Face at Each End of the Immigration Debate
New documentary explores local enforcement of immigration laws and the separation of families in Maricopa County, Arizona. Originally published in Barriozona Magazine Phoenix, Arizona – A new documentary about immigration in Maricopa County, Arizona produced in the place known as “ground zero” of the immigration debate was presented in a Phoenix theater on May 31. Two [...]
I love Cornel West; I’ve read almost every single one of his books and articles. I’m not as familiar with Tavis Smiley; I know that he does some good community work and is a media mogul person of color, which I respect. Still, I am an unabashed Cornel West fan; I love the way the [...]
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I have previously stated that I would not see the movie The Help, and I made this claim on two grounds: 1) Ablene Cooper who sued Kathryn Stockett for a mere $75,000 because Stockett stole her story had her lawsuit dismissed due to an elapsed statute of limitations. 2) Not only did the movie earn [...]
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By Nicole M. Jackson is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at The Ohio State University, In the preface to her memoir And Still I Rise: Seeking Justice for Stephen, Doreen Lawrence said that on the night of April 22, 1993 when her son Stephen was murdered in South East London, two [...]
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While indulging in a late afternoon nap, I was awakened by a phone call from a dear friend inviting me to see “White Noise: A Cautionary Musical” at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago. Produced by Whoopi Goldberg, and inspired by real-life singing white separatist twins, Lamb and Lynx Gaede, better known as Prussian Blue, [...]
Continue reading …Enuf talk about men, focus on the women: A review of Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls”
January 6, 2011 Comments Off
Tyler Perry’s recent film For Colored Girls, based on the “choreo-poem” written by Ntozake Shange, explores the poetic, theatrical and existential aspects of living in the world as a woman of colour. Shange’s play, whose full title is “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf”, was first staged in 1974 [...]
Continue reading …Crossposted from Colorlines Magazine Web Exclusive With a title as bold as Race, I was prepared for this play to go where no performance had before. Director David Mamet described his production as “a play about lies,” including the hidden truth that “there has always been, at the very least, a little bit of [...]
Continue reading …Rich Benjamin, an African American journalist (yes, his race matters) spent over two years (2007-2009) criss-crossing the country, traveling some 27,000 miles to document the latest manifestation of “white flight” — the migration of white residents from cities and integrated suburbs to cloistered, racially homogeneous enclaves that Benjamin calls “Whitopias.” Along the way, he bumps into a white separatist group that, by his own account, treated him with respect and dignity. What exactly does this “niceness” mean in contemporary U.S. race relations?
Continue reading …The new Peter Jackson film, “District 9,” opened at the top of the US box office this past weekend. The film is a mock documentary covering the events surrounding the arrival of an alien spacecraft to planet earth. A spaceship mysteriously appears above Johannesburg, South Africa. After several months of intrigue, a group of astronauts [...]
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