Dakota Fanning’s Role in ‘Sweetness in the Belly’ Sparks Debate on Whitewashed African Stories
The debut of the trailer for a film based on a critically acclaimed novel starring former child actress Dakota Fanning as a “white Ethiopian …
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‘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 …
