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The Black Aesthetic: Death, Mourning, and Celebration in Prince’s “Sometimes It Snows in April” and “Let’s Go Crazy”

March 29, 2017

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Kimberly Fain

When Prince Rogers Nelson died on April 21, 2016, his fans were shook by his untimely death. Many wondered if Prince himself foresaw the specter of death in his midst. As the world remembers the musical icon, the black and white movie Under the Cherry Moon (1986), dire...

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Conversations with Colson Whitehead by Kimberly Fain

March 22, 2017

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Kimberly Fain

Pulitzer Prize winner, Colson Whitehead is the James Baldwin of our times. Globally, he’s an imminent force on the literary scene. Colson received Oprah Winfrey’s praises when Underground Railroad became one of her Book Club selections, he received the National Book Aw...

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ESSAY: ON THE GORSUCH NOMINATION -- AND REMEMBERING THURGOOD MARSHALL

March 1, 2017

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Kimberly Fain

President Trump has offered us, so far, quite a first 100 days.  There has been the political whiplash, after eight years of our first black President, to an almost all-white-male Cabinet.  There has been a series of extreme executive orders, which have prompted mass p...

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