SUNDANCE 2019: Native Son is UnNerving and Courageously Necessary
When the credits rolled for a mostly white audience of first time director Rashid Johnson and scribe Suzan Lori-Parks reimagined unnerving, adrenaline shot adaption of Richard Wright’s Native Son you…
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
Robin Williams: Come Inside Your Mind is a loving, gentle tribute to a giant not only in the entertainment industry but in realm humanity itself. His presence will be missed,…
King in The Wilderness Explores Martin Luther King’s Final Years
As a young girl in St. Louis, when I realized my school didn’t recognize Dr. King’s Birthday as a National Holiday, I was livid. Livid enough to convince all of…
Susan Lacy Peels Back Layers of Jane Fonda at Sundance
Jane Fonda is a tough cookie. Icon. Movie Star. Wife. Mother. Activist. Half rose-petal. Half thorn. The rose petal is very girly and flirty when recalling the men in her…
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
There are three things in life we have no control over...How we come into this world, What human beings become our family and how we depart this realm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPDh5OwvXME
CONFIRMATION
Separate but equal is a phrase often synonymous with the Civil Rights Movement. However, the phrase took on a very different meaning when it came to the Clarence Thomas hearings,…
R.I.P. Mike Nichols
Mentor…A word usually associated with an individual who has a profound impact in one’s life. A person who is generous enough to guide one on their way to whatever…
Review: Nightingale
There has been much speculation regarding PTSD and how it affects those women and men that defend our country in war. There has also been much speculation regarding the discrimination,…
