“Redefining Realness”: Janet Mock’s compelling memoir about gender, race, identity
I sat down last weekend, intending to read for 30 minutes or so, and ended up devouring Redefining Realness cover-to-cover in five hours.
"Billy Budd": sex, revolution and sea in jaw-dropping opera
In 1888 Herman Melville began the philosophical novella Billy Budd. Perhaps one could say that composer Benjamin Britten and his librettists E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier "completed" it with their adaptation.
Ideology in crime mysteries: dapper detectives vs. working PIs
For many years, detectives came from a variety of occupational backgrounds - but with the large exceptions of industrial workers and farmers - "largely because these people do not have the leisure time to be detectives."
Oscar and Progies: view of movies from left side of the aisle
Join People's World film critic Bill Meyer tonight via Google+ for a conversation on movies and social change.
Join us Tuesday for an Oscar Night with People's World
Join us for a conversation on Hollywood, the Oscars, and alternative voices in film on Tuesday, Feb. 25. We will be having a discussion with film critic Bill Meyer and others.
Today in black history: Happy birthday Toni Morrison
On February 18, 1931 author Toni Morrison was born She was the first African-American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Go see Duke Ellington’s sweet, tangy “Queenie Pie”
Ellington was one of the most versatile figures in music of the 20th century, but most people do not know that from the 1930s on, Ellington worked intermittently, all the way up to his death in 1974, on an opera.
We Shall Be Free!: Black Communist Protest in Seven Voices
In his preface, Walter T. Howard writes that, he hopes to "break new ground in the scholarship of the African American left."
For Valentine’s Day, a love poem
I wrote this poem while sitting at a bookstore in Rockford, IL. In a creative mood, I heard a woman's voice - the rest is history.
Pan African Film Festival opens Feb. 6 in L.A.
One of L.A.'s leading annual cinema showcases and the biggest and most prestigious Black-themed film festivals, will take place February 6-17.
