Tag: African-American
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Jordan Peele’s “Nope” Is A Yup
Spoilers ahead because that’s what we do over here. This review is coming daysssss a full doggone week and some change after I originally planned to have it published, but I was on vacation and got sidetracked because who’s trying to type up a movie review when you’re at the beach with your man?? Certainly […]
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The Nickel Boys
The perfect novel. This is my second Colson Whitehead novel (the first being The Underground Railroad, which I didn’t love, but also didn’t hate – you can read my review here) and it just blew me away. I finished this book and, as I usually do when I finish books, sat in silence to digest […]
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The System At Work
When Ava DuVernay’s Netflix miniseries When They See Us took social media by storm on its May 31st release, I initially ignored the explosive response. Though the general details of the Central Park Jogger case seemed faintly familiar to me, I’d read and seen enough material about injustice towards Black people at the hands of […]
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An American Marriage
As someone who spends way too much time on Twitter, I’ve been plagued with reading countless arguments about whether it’s a good thing or the “right” thing for a woman to continue a relationship with a man who goes to prison. Each side of said argument thinks they’re right and the other is wrong, naturally, […]
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To Freedom
Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad is a story we’ve heard before: an enslaved person runs away from a lifetime of forced servitude in pursuit of freedom. However, in Whitehead’s adaptation, the means of escape in this novel is anything but metaphorical; the Underground Railroad is a literal railroad underneath southern soil with conductors and passage […]
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All Hail the Trap God
If anyone had asked me prior to last month who Gucci Mane was, my answer would’ve simply been, “he’s an Atlanta rapper” and that’s about all I would’ve been able to respond with. And while that answer is technically correct, there’s so much more to Gucci Mane than just being a rapper; he’s so much more […]
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