Last night I watched the documentary Dark Girls that was recently aired on OWN. The film explores the concept of colorism, that is the discrimination of people based on their skin color. The difference with racism, is that colorism happens also between people of the same race, the darker the [...]

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Last night I watched the documentary Somewhere Between. The director, Linda Goldstein Knowlton, went to explore the lives of four teenagers, all of them adopted from China as babies or young children. She wanted to find the answers to future questions her own baby daughter also adopted from China would [...]

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One of my favorite sites for information about movies that deal with African and African American cultures is Shadow and Act. Last week they posted about an interesting documentary short film that explores the subject of black doll making and collecting, Why do you have black dolls?. I wish I had [...]

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I never posted about this before, but I have a soft spot for classic British romantic dramas. I love stories about repressed emotions, privilege, the role of women in society of times past, and the difference between classes and genders. My favorites are of course Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily [...]

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