Growing up, I didn’t watch the Emmys every year. Apart from a few big names, not many of my favorite actresses (and none of my favorite shows) ever made the cut. It was rare that I saw women who looked… Continue Reading
Between 2020 Emmy nominations is a quiet victory for women in Hollywood: five of the shows nominated for best limited series (Small Fires Everywhere, The Lady Of America, Amazing, Unorthodoxand Watchmen) are stories centering on women. This category may not… Continue Reading
In a movement to elevate the status of women and promoting the empowerment of women, the most recent Instagram challenge has celebrities posting black and white selfies as part of the “Challenge Accepted” trend. Kerry Washington, Ciara, and Vanessa Bryant… Continue Reading
As a historian, one of my biggest frustrations has been historical films with Black characters tend to focus on the tragedy that the person who lives in a racist society. Too often, the Black are stories to tremble a modern… Continue Reading
“You frighten me,” my husband told me a couple of months ago, after looking over my shoulder to Karin Slaughter Blindsighted. He was (obviously) freaked out about how calm I was reading a suspense novel, describing the details of the… Continue Reading