……………16……………. ………….black…………… ……….pregnant………… I got a chance to go back to one of my community high schools and perform poetry. One of the poems that I performed in the national poetry competition was about a women being barren. When performing this piece at the high school, one of the girls—no more than 16—started to cry. [...]
If you haven’t seen it, I encourage you to add Trouble the Water to your Netflix queue, or rent it–people still do that, right? It was released on DVD today. I wrote a response/review of the documentary after seeing it at the Black Harvest Film Festival last year. Trouble the Water, which follows the before, [...]
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In 1964 at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Convention, Fannie Lou Hamer said, “All my life I’ve been sick and tired . . . Now, I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Even though these words were distinctively about Southern racism, I find myself unconsciously gravitating to these words to talk about the [...]
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My Reality of The Frankie and Neffe Show
Like many loyal fans of Keyshia Cole’s show, The Way It Is, I watched the premiere of Frankie and Neffe with bated breath hoping to see black reality drama at its finest. Of course, when people learn of my guilty pleasure many people are downright appalled that I, black feminist girl advocate Fallon, would want [...]
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