First of all. What is fabulous about the book is that it centers the life of a Black woman- scholarship kid-Stanford educated-Oceanographer from Cleveland. #blackgirlsarefromthefuture. Then it moves on to her biological family which is her mom, her baby brother and her dad. The themes that are present in the novel are forgiveness, Black [...]
Posts Tagged ‘BLACK WOMEN’
On the Brilliance of Martha Southgate’s “The Taste of Salt”.
Monday, November 28th, 2011Jay-Z x Nzingha Stewart x For Colored Girls.
Saturday, November 6th, 2010Last week I learned that in 2005 Jay-Z stopped the release of his autobiography, tentatively titled, The Black Book because he found it to be too personal. After reading this and realizing that Nzingha Stewart was originally signed to direct For Colored Girls, ? I concluded that a barometer of Black womens? freedom is our [...]
The Connection Between Protecting and Dominating Women
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010Within the comments section of my post “Black Women x The Streets x Harassment” , which Latoya has up on Racialicious, Gregory Butler explained the connection between being protected and being dominated in a straight forward and profound way. He writes, It took me years to reach the point where I could defy the social [...]
