For all my comic book fans and for those wanting to pique their interest, check out this exciting upcoming event!!
WinC and King Manor Museum are partnering together for an outdoor comic book festival to take place on June 11th, 2022.
More information coming soon!!
Admission is FREE and vendor opportunities are available!!
Tune in on this Thursday May 12th at 3 pm/ET as Dr. Robinson and I continue our discussion n Blackness and horror with a discussion on the 1997 film, Eve’s Bayou!!
Check it out on Auburn Avenue Research Library Facebook Live and YouTube!!
This discussion explores the 1997 film Eve’s Bayou. Actress Kasi Lemmons made an auspicious debut as a writer and director with this delicately handled, wrenchingly emotional drama, hailed by critic Roger Ebert as one of the best films of 1997. Eve’s Bayou begins with ominous narration: “The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years old.” From that point the story moves backward in time and memory to Louisiana in 1962, when a young girl named Eve (Jurnee Smollett) witnesses a shocking act on the part of her womanizing father (Samuel L. Jackson). But what really happened? And can Eve be certain about what she saw when there is more than one interpretation of the facts? Less a mystery than a study of deeply rooted emotions rising to the surface to affect an entire family, the film has the quality of classic Southern literature, with layers of memory unfolding to reveal a carefully guarded truth.
Just in case you want to refresh your memory of the movie, check out the trailer below:
I know I missed you guys on last week, but I am back and I came with that newness!! Check out this week’s new trailer alerts:
Bling Empire (Streaming on Netflix May 13th)
Night Sky (Streaming on Prime Video May 20th)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (Streaming on Disney+ May 27th)
Hollywood Stargirl (Streaming on Disney+ June 3rd)
Season 5-The Chi (Streaming on Showtime June 24th)
Season 5-Cobra Kai (Streaming on Netflix September 9th)
Don’t Worry Darling (In theaters September 23rd)
Dear Mama-Limited Series (Streaming on FX Fall 2022)
So this past weekend I had the pleasure of being featured in two news outlets VCU News and USA Today!!
For VCU News, I was interviewed about one of my Spring courses, “Say Her Name: Humanizing the Black Female Voice in Television.” I got a chance to surprise my students with one of the actress [Cherokee Hall who plays “Extra Extra”] from the STARZ television series “P-Valley”.
Check out some of the story here:
It’s important to Gipson that the course engages with what’s happening in the world. The representation of Black female actors and the characters they take on has always been essential to the success of television as a medium,” she said.
However, Hollywood is not quick to showcase, celebrate, and even hire them. Television has made strides, but it has been inconsistent and slow moving,” she said, adding that many of the women whose work the course studies are breaking barriers and re-setting television culture. I want students to see how television and film are a way to tackle issues and problems.
Joan Tupponce-VCU News
Now for the USA Today article, I switch gears and offer some social commentary on the Dave Chappelle incident and whether America can still handle a joke!!
Here are a few of my thoughts below:
But the combustible cultural moment we are living in — one roiled by political discord and pandemic restrictions — certainly is testing that joke and let joke philosophy, says Grace Gipson, assistant professor in the department of African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.
I feel like in his day Richard Pryor took things to an extreme maybe even greater than what we see today, but no one was bum rushing the stage, says Gipson. Today, it seems like people are free to show their anger beyond heckling.
Marco della Cava & Maria Puente USA TODAY
To read the full articles, check out the following links: VCU News and USA Today !!
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