on July 7, 1977 —an auspicious day according to Marcus Garvey— that he had acral lentiginous melanoma, an extremely rare form of skin cancer that appears in generally ignored parts of the body, like on the soles of the feet or. In Bob’s case, the cancer appeared under a toenail. ...
To categorize this as an immigrant story, or a coming-of-age tale, would do the novel injustice. Like Fences, the 1985 August Wilson play-turned-film about a middle-aged black sanitation worker providing for his family, Number One achieves a tenor of slow asphyxiation amidst the mundane. Wh...
October 1975 was when the campaign began to cohere. Rafshoon filmed Carter in a Florida pulpit and turned the sermon into two ads that began running in Iowa. Because each spot was five minutes long, Iowa voters saw them as news pieces, and they began breaking through. In the ads, Carter...
I’m with the woman her lost her father and turned to food to grieve causing her to gain weight and then be left by her partner because, “He was no longer sexually attracted to her because she had gained too much weight and blamed it on the death of her father for too long.” I...
I know Steve considered me 'nervous and high-strung,' I'd overheard him talking to the phlebotomist about me once. "One of the feet had toenail polish," I told him. "Um… maybe she's doing some kind of special effects thing for a play or, or a movie, or it's an art project?