Keith Josef Adkins

Keith Josef Adkins is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and social commentator.

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In-your-face observations of art, entertainment and the world at large from someone who cares. Can you handle the truth?

NOVEMBER 19 | Only the Super Negro Sells Movie Tix in Europe

NOVEMBER 18 | Sarah Palin Says Newsweek Photo Is Sexist

NOVEMBER 16 | Anthony Sowell's Victims: Drug Addicted, Expendable and Murdered

One man's opinion on very nearly everything. It's hard but it's fair.

NOVEMBER 16 | Heather Ellis: Not That Innocent

NOVEMBER 13 | College Education Is No Longer an Option ... Is It?

NOVEMBER 12 | Hasan: Who Shot Ya?

Manners and mores in modern life? It's about way more than where the fork goes.

NOVEMBER 17 | Close Encounters of the Celebrity Kind

NOVEMBER 9 | No Present Like The Time

NOVEMBER 3 | My Cheap Best Friend

From finance to foreclosures, layoffs and lack of opportunity, a daily journal of the economic crisis and its effect on black professionals.

NOVEMBER 19 | Should We Be More Afraid of Identity Theft?

NOVEMBER 18 | The Cost of Celebrity Isn't What It Used To Be

NOVEMBER 17 | Calls For Job Growth Grow Louder

Smart, up to the minute takes on politics--from the state house to the White House. Pull up a chair.

NOVEMBER 20 | Dems to Obama: Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way

NOVEMBER 20 | Delaying Cancer Screenings May Not be Best Option for Black Women

NOVEMBER 16 | It'll Take More Than a Tantrum to Stop Gay Rights in D.C.

Engaging commentary, interviews, and reviews that delve into and beyond the world of books. Get read.

NOVEMBER 19 | Reading List: The Poetry Edition

NOVEMBER 12 | Publishing with the Stars

NOVEMBER 6 | Producing Precious

A daily conversation on hot topic culture items. From Zora to Zane, True Blood to Tiny & Toya, TEWW covers high art, low-brow culture and everything in between.

NOVEMBER 17 | Beyoncé's Video Ho, er, Phone

NOVEMBER 13 | Oprah to Robin Givens: "I apologize."

NOVEMBER 12 | Illiteracy Begins and Ends at Home

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    2009

    A Belated Farewell to Painter Ernie Barnes

    May 1, 2009 at 6:12 PM
    Ernie Barnes' My Miss America

    I couldn't sit with myself if I didn't offer an official farewell to painter Ernie Barnes.  The prolific and talented painter passed away Monday.  I don't know about you, but I grew up watching reruns of Good Times and gazing at the cover of Marvin Gaye's I Want You as my parents listened and grooved to the music.  Barnes and his art were the main attraction for both.  Although Good Times was a weekly presentation of theater-quality TV that examined social issues within the Black underlcass, it was Barnes' Sugar Shack painting in the closing credits that stuck to my soul.  In a very sublte or maybe not-so-subtle way, Ernie Barnes' art asked me to study and observe "blackness" with a serious eye and heart.  It was like he was saying, Yeah, this is TV and Hollywood is white and J.J. is funny, but I'm [Barnes] putting my mark on this to assure you we are real.  Thanks, Ernie Barnes.  I'm keeping you close!

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