COLOREDS ON TV! Seeing black people on Masterpiece Theatre makes me think of the olden days of television when Black folks would call friends and family to let them know “coloreds on TV.” Tonight, Masterpiece Theatre debuts an adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel Small Island on PBS (first premiered on BBC in 2009). It’s the [...]
Are we living in Dickensian Times? Four years ago I wanted to explore this question, but recently, I’m starting to believe it’s pretty much fact. Period. I’ll go so far to say it hasn’t been a question for the last 12 years. The times and even the attitudes, I’ve noticed, more or less resemble a [...]
The one criticism I have for the “defenders of free speech” in the culture wars is that the so-called “in touch,” sophisticated, smart people don’t know how to talk to people who disagree with them on specific cultural issues – meaning civil dialogue. I’m not saying it’s easy on either side. But I have a [...]
