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The Brown Case for Comic Books: A Goddess Named Storm
Writing at the Huffington Post, Clarence Haynes says that while he didn’t give it much thought as a child, the powerful character reflected the possibilities of the women of color he grew up with and those he would go on to know as friends and professionals. … I also had no idea as a kid…
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A 'Strange' Fusion of Blackness
A rock-and-rolling, Los Angeles-based black teenager with a penchant for Buddhism and disdain for his mother’s Baptist church heads to Europe to find what he calls “The Real,” an elusive notion of the authentic experience. Such is the premise of Passing Strange, the Tony Award-winning 2008 Broadway musical that is now the subject of a…