Whatever The New Yorker‘s rationale for commissioning a piece on Tyler Perry, the “critic-proof” producer and director of black popular theater and television (he is a darling of the mainstream), but it is good take on the race, sexual, moral and class politics of this present-day Oscar Micheaux who has formed a lucrative alliance with […]
“There’s a Place in Brooklyn Where Black People Live, and It’s Nice”
March 4, 2010 By 1 Comment
Comedian Chris Rock speaking about Fort Greene, my neighborhood in Brooklyn–now heavily gentrified–in a new feature-length documentary, “”A Walk Through Fort Greene,” about the black arts movement there from the mid 1980s through the 90s. Word of this film coincides with an exhibition on gentrification in Fort Greene at The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan […]
