Civil Rights Movement

A Literary Retrospective: If Beale Street Could Talk

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Harlem street scene 1970s

I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there. (If Beale Street Could Talk, p. 15) Love, its absence, and its

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Is “Hidden Figures” too rosy a picture?

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As characters in this acclaimed movie, the white people are mostly background, who barely react in the midst of the revolution these women bring into their segregated bubble.

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