Tag: Yaphet Kotto

“Long Nights, Impossible Odds, Keeping My Back To the Wall”

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|Lucas Hardwick| **Mild spoilers ahead*** My career as a writer is successful only in the sense that I get to do it; my work is published here and there, and maybe a few hundred people read it, chuckle, and manage to get something out of it—some of it right here on this very blog. But… Continue reading

Back to the Future: Michael Roemer’s Nothing but a Man

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Ivan Dixon as Duff, a young Black man with short hair and a mustache, is sitting with his arms up behind his head, smiling at Abbey Lincoln playin Josie, a Black woman with a patterned scarf around her hair, who reciprocates his smiling glance.

|Nazeeh Alghazawneh| The idea of someone “being ahead of their time,” whether it be an artist, an author, an activist etc., is kind of paradoxical. The phrase implies that broad social, philosophical or political landscapes will change inevitably, develop autonomously, independently of… Continue reading