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How revolutionary writer Essex Hemphill gave poetic voice to the Black Queer experience
New Directions Publishing Essex HemphillThe Great Storyteller 1957-1995 As a Black gay writer and activist, Essex Hemphill used words as a weapon, a ...
Diane Warren thinks 'The Journey' deserves to win Oscar over all of her other nominated songs
Diane Warren reflects on her record 16th Oscar nomination and why she thinks this is her best song of the nominees yet.
Mother and Daughter Stuck in the Woods, With Danger Everywhere
Two new novels riff on fairy tales to explore mothers with unusual hungers and daughters trying to survive them.
Below the Surface: How ‘The Substance,’ ‘Wicked’ and Other Oscar Movies Grapple With the Female Archetype | Guest Column
Guest columnist Salamishah Tillet explores what happens when Hollywood heroines subvert societal expectations of gender norms ...
Scott Derrickson Explains Why He Needed to Make ‘The Gorge’ Before ‘The Black Phone 2’
The action-romance film starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller comes just eight months before his horror sequel, which he calls “a high school coming-of-age movie.” ...
A Harlem Globetrotters’ Mount Rushmore: Goose, Marques, Meadowlark and Curly
Collectively, Goose Tatum, Marques Haynes, Meadowlark Lemon and Curly Neal played Globetrotters basketball for more than 70 ...