Chadwick Aaron Boseman was born on November 29th, 1976, in South Carolina. Boseman attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in directing. He later studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England. Throughout his illustrious career, Boseman starred in, directed, and wrote multiple stage productions, such as Breathe, …
Ram Dass 1931-2019 Ram Dass was a New Age guru who, in the late 1960s. with Timothy Leary, emerged as a proponent of the psychedelic experience. He died at his home in Maui, Hawaii, on December 22. For more than fifty years, he was an active presence in my life as well as the life …
As soon as I heard about Penny Marshall’s passing (December 17, 2018 at age 75), I volunteered to write a In Memoriam article for the website of the Hollywood Foreign Press. The editor agreed, and sent me a short text he had just finished writing, I added quotes from our interviews and more information about …
I hope Jesus doesn’t look like the white man on the wall. That flowy-locked iteration of the Messiah they wanted Black people to believe in would find his alabaster skin colored with surprise as Ms. Aretha Franklin entered the gates and demanded payment—her heavenly reward—upfront. Her blessings must be plentiful, as she packed her 76 …
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Poets Jessica Ceballos and Billy Burgos share their personal stories about the impact of Maya Angelou.
When I reached to old friend and exceptional poet Ama Birch about writing a piece on Maya Angelou’s passing, she sent me this short piece. It’s not what I was looking for, since I was thinking more of a personal essay, but reading it, the simplicity of the poem says it all: Maya What a …
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