Category Archives: review
I Broke Up with Netflix/Don’t Look Up
As I hovered my finger over the “Cancel” button just a few days before I was scheduled to have yet another $14.99 deducted from my bank account, I remembered with fondness my many hours spent with Netflix. How it had … Continue reading
Review of Lee Daniels’ The United States vs. Billie Holiday
The whole time I watched Lee Daniels’ The United States vs. Billie Holiday I thought, “Ignorance is bliss,” an adage to which I used to wholeheartedly subscribe. And now I know that after so many years of breathing (an accomplishment) … Continue reading
Posted in Afro-Caribbean, black women, film, review
Tagged film review, Nina Simone, The United States vs. Billie Holiday
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Nnedi Okorafor’s “Mother in Invention” and the Power of Woman
*Illustration by Shyama Golden I have recently found two short stories that brought back some hard memories. They were both cathartic, gifting me with the ability to remember and, with a renewed conviction, reject the stories that I was told … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, artwork, black women, culture, literature, posters, review, Speculative Fiction, Writer
Tagged Mother of Invention, Nnedi Okorafor, review, short story, Winds of Harmattan
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ADIFF’s A Taste of Our Land and the New Colonization of Africa
I’m not a fan of Hillary Clinton or her husband. I know too much about the harm they’ve repeatedly brought to Haiti. But even the Devil tells the truth sometimes. Several years ago, in 2011, then U.S. Secretary of State … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, African-American, Afro-Caribbean, artwork, film, review
Tagged A Taste of Our Land, Africa, Chinese, film, NYADIFF, review
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Young, Gifted, Black: Destinies Fulfilled
I don’t know about you, but with everything going on, especially these past few months, I’ve been thinking about death…a lot. Not really in a morbid sense, but rather, as a way of reflecting on the importance of living well … Continue reading
Posted in African-American, black women, film, literature, review, Writer
Tagged Chadwick Boseman, Lorraine Hansberry, Young Gifted and Black
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Black Woman Magic
Black girl magic is real. Black woman magic is real. It’s in Nina Simone singing “Blues for Mama” in the way that only she could. It’s in Harriet Tubman, who, though illiterate in the white man’s language (because he made … Continue reading
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Tagged Fast Color, film, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lorraine Toussaint, Nina Simone, review, Saniyya Sidney
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Review of James McBride’s Deacon King Kong
A few weeks ago I watched a brilliant panel discussion entitled “Black American Buddhists on Community and Activism.” The panel featured three African American Buddhist practitioners and teachers, two with whom I was familiar: Kamilah Majied and DaRa Williams. When … Continue reading
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Tagged Deacon King Kong, James McBride, review
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Review of Ayobami Adebayo’s Stay With Me
Ayobami Adebayo’s Stay With Me (2017) has gotten lots of positive press. It was a New York Times Notable Book, The New York Times’ Critics’ Top Books of the Year, was named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle, National Public … Continue reading
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