Fine local plays dramatize black struggles in AmericaHedy Weiss
A Raisin in the Sun Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee 21 votes Based on Lorraine Hansberry's iconic play, this timeless drama captures the struggles of a working-class Black family as they grapple with issues of race, identity, and social mobility in mid-20th century America. Dri...
The talented ensemble cast, including Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, and Laurence Fishburne, delivers unforgettable performances in this authentic portrayal of urban life. Singleton's powerful storytelling and his ability to capture the complexity of the characters' struggles earned him an Academy Awar...
To escape an arranged marriage, Akeem flees to America accompanied by his persnickety sidekick, Semmi (Arsenio Hall), to find his queen. Disguised as a foreign student working in a fast food restaurant, he romances Lisa (Shari Headley), but struggles with revealing his true identity to her ...
She initially gained recognition as the first African-American woman to receive the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984 in 1983. However, a scandal arose the following year when, a few weeks prior to the end of her reign, Williams learned that Penthouse magazine would ...
(Jason Mitchell), two boys who leave a world of racism and other struggles behind. The battle ends. They return home, Jamie with newfound trauma, and Ronsel to a country that looks down at him for the color of his skin, regardless of his valor. What’s to truly savor in Rees’ ...
Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America's Underprepared This book is concerned with the educational underclass of students considered underachieving, remedial, or illiterate, and with the kinds of literacy and l... J Rouse,M Rose - 《English Journal》 被引量: 298发表:...
The Civil Rights movement was the original motor force for the New Left and its dominant element during the years leading up to the political watershed of 1964–1965, when at last Congress acted to outlaw the major forms of discrimination based on race (
In this hiiighly-underrated indie flick, a Black teenager living in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood struggles to embrace her identity as a lesbian...and also tries to decide whether she can confide in her family about who she really is. STREAM IT 30. Judas and the Black Messiah (2021...
Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm, a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husba...