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November 12, 2009
Lee Daniels' film? Brilliant. The Oprah-fied pitch? Not so much.
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October 19, 2009
But you still need to go see Lee Daniels’ brilliant, powerful new film about a Harlem black girl in trouble.
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by Aymar Jean Christian onOctober 14, 2009
Forget the boob tube. Some of the most avant-garde black programming is heading straight to the Web.
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September 23, 2009
Books by black women about black women are being turned into films and are headed to a screen near you. And they star black women too.
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September 22, 2009
While you ask "Why?" Perry asks, "Why not?"
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by Thembi Ford onSeptember 22, 2009
He's just not good enough for Ntozake Shange.
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September 11, 2009
I can't think of anyone better to adapt Ntozake Shange’s play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enufthan Tyler Perry.
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September 8, 2009
Tyler Perry’s need to prove he can make "art" with Ntozake Shange's choreopoem For Colored Girls is embarrassing.
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June 1, 2009
Lee makes some valid points about Perry, but Lee's not exempt from his own regressive image making.
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by Gary Dauphin onJanuary 7, 2009
Tyler Perry, Rev. Wright and the end of the chitlin circuit.
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