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Housekeeping For Beginners Proves Chosen Family Provides Love in Abundance
Housekeeping for Beginners really struck a nerve and a chord that sends chills down my spine, yet fills me elated content that somewhere in the world human being will one…
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In Our Mother’s Garden Cultivates a Soil Rich with Love, Truth and Laughter
You only get one and they teach you that when you are Black in America you can't have a short memory becasue you are singing a very long song. Shantrelle…
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Sisterly Bonds Provide a Rich Backdrop in Invisible Life
One of the most intriguing things about Invisible Life is the disrespect, disdain and disgusting manner in which women in the 50's were treated like property and not human beings.…
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Family, Race, Class and Triumph of Human Spirit Examined in QUEST
For his debut documentary, QUEST, director Jonathan Olshefski spent nearly a decade chronicling the daily triumphs and tragedies of the Raineys, a working class African-American family in North Philadelphia. The father, Christopher…
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Family Tradition is Alive and Well in Disney Pixar’s COCO
Every family has that member that when they leave this realm, the family unit falls apart and is never quite the same. For my family, it was my Aunt Cleo…
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Olaf’s Frozen Adventure Brings Home Tradition and Family for the Holidays
If someone had told me, a grown woman, that I would be in the ugly cry over a snowman, I probably would’ve bet you’re wrong. I mean, let’s face it…the…
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Tribeca Talks: THE GODFATHER and GODFATHER II
It is no secret that The Godfather Trilogy is one of my all-time favorite movies. Al Pacino, James Caan and Robert De Niro were among my first movie-star crushes. I…
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Terry McMillan Brings A Day Late and a Dollar Short to Lifetime
Yes, this film has its melodramatic, serialized moments, but the final scene is a definite tear jerker and reminder every family may have their differences, secrets and dramatic moments but…
