“I’se still climbin’, and life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” Langston Hughes
“I am not tragically colored……I do not weep at the world.” Zora Neale Huston
“To be a Negro in this country and to be … Read the rest
It’s one of the most pivotal scenes in the classic 1985 film, The Color Purple: set in 1930s rural Georgia, Ms. Sofia (Oprah Winfrey) is in town running errands with her family, when she’s approached out of nowhere by Ms. … Read the rest
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
“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
“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