Back in March, I mentioned the fierce verbal artistry of Stacey Patton, and here I am again. This time, a troll on Facebook remarked to Pat...

From Hopkins to Hansberry. That is, from Pauline Hopkins, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry and Gwendolyn Brooks to Lorraine Hansb...

  The (racially) mysterious man-eater and vamp trope. Literally! That is exactly what Mary is. Whoa. Thinking about her through this literal...

By Howard Rambsy II        "[Stack]...is said to have done bad man things, but we never actually see him doing it." (Cindy Reed) ...

By Cindy Reed  I watched the film again and caught something I missed the first time, something crucial to understand Mary as nonwhite and w...

Yesterday, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Purpose . That's a major accomplishment. What I hadn't...

Angel C. Dye I finally saw Sinners on Tuesday night in IMAX. I've clearly been gathering myself since then. Whew. It's  hard to even...

Last March while reading Percival Everett's James and tracking the coverage of the novel , I, along with many others, predicted that the...