Mulatto Moments in “Post Racial” America.
On MLK Day my sister has a gathering of folks to watch films and share stories and art around the issues of the day. I was trying to think of what I wanted to share that day and I thought of Richie Havens at Woodstock. So I looked up the lyric. It primarily adapts Motherless [...]
Did anyone see this at Sundance? I’m really curious to hear about it. It’s a documentary on the first integrated prom at a high school in Charleston, Mississippi that occured in 2008. Yes, that’s right, no typo, 2008! And only because Morgan Freeman offered to pay for it if they integrated the dance.
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I always felt American. I’m the descendent of Pilgrims and slaves. I know the White House was always supposed to be the People’s House. Now I really feel it. Everything is possible.