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…
Tag: letting go
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…
Justice and Truth
“We can not seek justice and then deny truth.” This thought or line just came to me as I reflect on how far we have come as African Americans in this country. Yesterday I watched “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth”, a film that chronicles her magnificent life and inside of the film the images of…
The Art of Letting Go: Part Three
The Art of Letting Go: Part Three- All pain is not the same There are different levels of pain experienced by people. Although pain should never be compared to each other in a way that suggests that one pain is less or worse than another, the reality is that all pain is not the same….
The Art of Letting Go: Part Two
The Art of Letting Go, Part Two- Sometimes the personal is not political at all Most of what people struggling with in terms of letting go are painful childhood memories; physical abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, and the physical feeling and the fear that comes with having no food in the cabinets. Painful experiences and memories…
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