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Films Posted onMarch 22, 2016September 28, 2019

Man on Wire (2008)

Rating: 8 of 10 Ever said to yourself that your dream is too big? That what you want to do is impossible? Then I dare…

Books Posted onMarch 17, 2016

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Rating: 4.5 of 5 One of the best memoirs I’ve read! Woodson lays bare her childhood, her dreams, her soul and she does so freely,…

Books Posted onFebruary 12, 2016

The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan by Rafia Zakaria

Rating: 3.5 of 5 Synopsis: “A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women… Telling the parallel stories of Amina’s polygamous marriage and Pakistan’s…

Books Posted onFebruary 6, 2016September 28, 2019

I Put A Spell On You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone

Rating: 4 of 5 I still remember like it was yesterday the first time I heard Nina Simone: 1993, I was fifteen and watching the…

movie poster What Happened Miss Simone 2015
Films Posted onFebruary 1, 2016September 28, 2019

What Happened, Miss Simone (2015)

Rating: 8 of 10 A no-holds-barred look at one of the greatest singers/pianists to ever grace the world with her gifts. Synopsis: “The documentary will…

Books Posted onSeptember 8, 2014

Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones

Rating: 4 of 5 Growing up, two people had a tremendous impact on my budding imagination: Fred Rogers and Jim Henson. Up till around age…

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