I saw the explosive, powerful, and touching movie, #Selma. Selma is one of my all time favorite movies because of its touching portrayal of human complexity created within narrow psychological margins. Selma also tries to correct the cinematic over-emphasis of the over-indulgence of seeing Black history through Black male experience. The movie recasts the lives of African Americans…
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The Drip-Drip Method: I JUST CAN’T GIVE YOU MY FORGIVENESS -S1/E8
Previously on Episode 7: Miss Wilson tells ReeRee about ReeRee’s father, Becker. This is what Miss Wilson said about the enslaved Black man that she loved–“I loved your father. You may never understand but having you near me all of these years has kept my love for him in my heart. I still remember…
Meditation and The Funk
Friends and family, About 15 months or more ago, I meditated over a weekend with 10 other brave souls for about 16 hours in total silence. I experienced a sort of mental and emotional breaking down, questioning what really existed inside. Searching for the essence, in a sense. In a similar way, our country is…
The Drip-Drip Method: Called to Order S1/E1
The Drip-Drip Method is a period piece, starting circa 1859. The story follows the life events of strong African American women who were enslaved. This show will examine this dreadful chaotic moment in history from the resistance and triumphant point of view of Blacks. How did they survive? What were their resistance strategies? How did they organize themselves behind…
Light of Devourment
When Timmy was first born into the world it was full of magic. His mother, Rocious loved him in an eternal and expansiveness way with certainty, like the certainty of the eye of the storm. The eye of the storm knows its meaning and purpose, like a rock that falls down into a cave trapping…
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