Justin Simien (born 7 May 1983) is an American filmmaker, actor, and author. His first feature film, Dear White People, won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.[ Simien has also been named to Variety's 2013 "10 Directors to Watch" list.[ … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: African-American Screenwriters
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Friday Open Thread: Black History Facts
James Alan McPherson (September 16, 1943 – July 27, 2016) was an American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was included among the first group of artists who received a MacArthur Fellowship. At the time of his death, McPherson was a professor emeritus of fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Black History Facts
Friday Open Thread: Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement
Continuing on with this week's open thread theme, I turn my sights to the one of the main organizers of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. Jo Ann Gibson Robinson (April 17, 1912 – August 29, 1992) was a civil rights activist and educator in Montgomery, Alabama. Born near Culloden, Georgia, she was the youngest of twelve children. She attended Fort Valley … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement
Friday Open Thread: Black Geniuses That Inspire
Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) was an African American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, and a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Black Geniuses That Inspire
Friday Open Thread: Black Women and Rock n Roll
Malina Moye (born 1984) is an American singer-songwriter, lefty guitarist, and entrepreneur who fuses rock and soul. Fender guitars recognizes Malina as one of their first African-American left-handed upside-down female endorsee to join the fender family. She founded WCE Records in 2004. After releasing her single "Girlfriend" and cross-marketing it with her new calendar "Spend … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Black Women and Rock n Roll