“…Expanding our real estate as women of color”: Hitting the “High Note” with Tracee Ellis Ross
As she appears on the computer screen for AAFCA’s Virtual roundtable, Tracee Ellis Ross is the picture of casual glam: bare arms, elegant gold jewelry and her signature mane smoothed back to emphasize her expressive eyes and a mega-watt, magenta-from-MAC … Read the rest
“Please, I Can’t Breathe”….and We Won’t Wait.
“My freedom doesn’t end where your fears begin.”
“Fake crisis, Dr. Fauci is wrong!”
“The cure is deadlier than COVID, no virus cancels the constitution!”
Less than one month into the nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the Coronavirus, … Read the rest
“It has Never Been More Important Than Now To Promote Awareness About… Worthy Content”: The Gil Robertson/AAFCA Q&A
“Lorrie, look…..isn’t that Eddie Murphy walking right in over there?”
It was a warm yet misty November night: I was surrounded by 30-odd fellow members of the African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) and we were sitting at assorted tables and … Read the rest
“What Do You Want, A Cookie?”: Hustling Backwards With Lowered Expectations
Last fall, the week before Thanksgiving, I was at home preparing for a flight when Nia called: she had been practicing after school for choir and both of us were under the impression that her older brother Darius was picking … Read the rest
Award Noms & Adoration For Natural “Hair Love”
A couple of months ago, I was washing my hands in the sink at work and my co-worker Rhonda walked in. It was a Monday and we were discussing what we did with our weekends and the latest on her … Read the rest