Free Black Women’s Library holds Lavender + Lit poetry reading
The Free Black Women’s Library held a read-and-relax event Sunday afternoon at the Underground Museum in Arlington Heights section of Los Angeles. Taking place …
Book Launch: ‘More Than Enough’ by Elaine Welteroth
Elaine Welteroth, who reached prominence as the first black Teen Vogue editor and now as a Project Runway judge, stopped in Los Angeles Thursday …
‘Younger’ TV Review: Millennial’s Next Top Model
Younger‘s sixth season has finally revealed the secret that’s been the premise of the show since the first episode: Liza is 42, and not …
‘Queen Sugar’ TV Review: Stare at the Same Fires
The OWN series Queen Sugar has been knee-deep this season in driving storylines around the memoir by Nova, the middle daughter of the sugar …
‘Queen Sugar’ TV Review: Of Several Centuries + All the Borders
Based on the critically acclaimed novel by Natalie Baszile, Queen Sugar follows the Bordelons, a black family who owns a sugarcane company in Louisiana. …
‘Younger’ TV Review: The Debu-taunt
Finally everyone on Younger knows Liza’s real age—and of course, there’s major backlash. For the past six seasons, book editor Liza (Sutton Foster) has …
Gabrielle Union shines light on books by black women with screen projects
Currently a judge on America’s Got Talent and a creator behind a fashion line at New York and Company, actress and author Gabrielle Union …
‘The Sun Is Also a Star’ sees mediocre reviews: Is multicultural YA viable on silver screen?
Nicola Yoon’s best-selling young adult romance The Sun Is Also A Star transformed into a movie this past weekend, but the critics didn’t seem …
How the introverted black writer girl became visible in ‘Poetic Justice’
Alone, all alone. Nobody, but nobody can make it out here alone. Poetic Justice brought the modern literary black woman to film in 1993 …
