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  • From The Vault: A 2015 Interview with Rain Pryor

    From The Vault: A 2015 Interview with Rain Pryor

    The below Q&A was an interview I conducted sometime in 2015 when I was a Staff Blogger at the website, HelloBeautiful. I was asked if I would be interested in talking to Rain Pryor about her one-woman show Fried Chicken & Latkes and I immediately said yes to the assignment. I certainly knew who she…

  • [From the Archives] “Belle” 2014 movie review

    [From the Archives] “Belle” 2014 movie review

    [Originally published May 2014; Updated in September 2020] Films about black women, even when based on the original works created and written by black women, are often helmed by male filmmakers once they reach the highest form of flattery: the visual adaptation. As Tyler Perry and Steven Spielberg translated For Colored Girls (2010) and The…

  • #TBT: February’s “BlackGirlMajik” Meetup, in Boston, Was Amazing

    #TBT: February’s “BlackGirlMajik” Meetup, in Boston, Was Amazing

    On February 20, the founder of BlackGirlMajik, Shydeia Caldwell, brought her cause of uplifting women of color to Boston’s Emmanuel College campus. Co-organized by the non-profit groups We Are The Ones and Encuentro Diaspora Afro, BlackGirlMajik, prior to the date, sent out an email blast to all Black women and women of color who were…