The American Prospect
Cicely Tyson: A Shining Titan of Black Excellence
Cicely Tyson’s story is long because it matches her impact. Clocking in at 432 pages, every chapter and punctuation mark has been earned. Tyson leaves behind not just a record of her own life, but a living history of a generation of talented, creative, and enterprising artists. But first and foremost, Just as I Am tells the stories of mid-20th-century Black American women and the hardships they faced as they labored to be appreciated for their intellectual contributions and their humanity—and how one actor sought to tell those stories
Why So Many Black Horror Films Are Horrors Themselves
The problem, naturally, is that a meaningful radical politics tends to take a back seat when entertainment and commerce meet. Many of the aforementioned projects, though entertaining, ultimately fail because they do not do the hard ideological work necessary to give them the cultural and political meaning to which they aspire. They fall into the gaping hole where art and capitalism generally intersect.