According to his website, Dumas Haddad is a director and writer raised in London who has developed his craft from the world’s of fashion, music & bleeding edge culture. His work elicits powerful uses of analogies and on-the-pulse narrative and character underpinnings. …

Welcome or welcome back, friends and readers! This is a new installation of a series of pieces that I started some years ago titled, On Accessing Art as an Amateur where I get inspired about art and write about it. I’m writing as someone who is not a art critic…

Memory is a powerful, powerful tool, isn’t it? I’ve been reading more and more these days. Being at home more during lock down due to the pandemic, I’ve been giving a lot of thought of my favorite childhood books. With last year came waves and waves of grief and mourning…

Director John Singleton’s films are known to center around inner-city tension and have narratives that center African Americans. As a Los Angeles native, it shouldn’t be incorrect to assume that he wanted to see films that featured people who looked like him, for representation sake. …

#FUBU For Us By Us: Depictions of Black Girls and Women On Film By Black Women Nearly one hundred years after motion pictures were invented, the first nationally distributed full length, feature film by an African American was released in the winter of 1992. Julie Dash’s sixteen year journey to…

Rediscovering ways to rekindle friendships while the world is on lock down — Truly snail mail has never gone out of style, it has been more reserved for junk mail and our bills, bank statements and sometimes invitations for big events like weddings or graduations — at least for those of us who haven’t switched most of that to more paperless, digital means. …

Reflecting on Redemption, Accountability and Blackness Director Kathryn Bigelow’s name and ultimately her legacy will bring to mind that she became the first woman in Oscar history to win the Best Director award in 2010. According to her IMDB webpage, as of 2020 there have only been five women nominated: Lina Wertmüller, Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola…

Despite the updated dismal numbers on who actually gets to be in books, Children's Lit is still a important part of the pie when its comes to the book publishing industry. …