November 2010
2 posts
Something To Think About: Images of South Africa
I saw a photo once of two women carrying another women. The woman being carried was old and frail, but the women carrying her could have only been about ten years younger. But they took on the burden because she had to do something very important—vote for Nelson Mandela for President of South Africa.
I was only 16 or 17 years old at the time, but I remembering thinking that we should be...
somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff
Last week, I went to the midnight showing of Tyler Perry’s film adaptation For Colored Girls, which is based on Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf. I had been skeptical, but my fears were quickly put aside by the stellar cast.
The only problem were these women in the audience. They laughed and laughed. And laughed. There...