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Day: February 25, 2012

On The Help, Viola Davis, And "Black Art" Vs. "Negro Respectability"

Posted on February 25, 2012 Administrator12 CommentsPosted in Black Library Girl, Sweetness & Light

It’s not that I need to see heroes or doctors or lawyers or Tuskegee Airmen as opposed to drug dealers or absent fathers or crack addicted sex-workers–or maids.

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