In addition to recasting Hattie McDaniels for today's audiences as less of an easy-street heroine who won the first Oscar for Blacks and more of a lifelong victim of emotional abuse in Hollywood due to her color, any Millennials who love Hollywood but never knew Hattie can no longer say they were not told.
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10 Black Women Writers To Read This Black History Month
These women came before Kindle, and forever changed opportunities available to Black women authors in America.
My Story IN 21 DAYS as part of Winter Tangerine Review’s “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” Project
Proud for the beautiful opportunity to be featured in this project published by Winter Tangerine Review. My story "In 21 Days" appears. I wrote the story to provide my energy to the reality of a disproportionate number of Black Americans who are sentenced to hard time or who await the death penalty.
The Color of Crime
Do an unfortunate majority perceive violent crime as an African-American creation because it is most often true or because it is most often shown?
This Week in Black Women…
Black women have begun 2015 with some big bangs...
I Am a Proud “No Kid Hungry” Blogger.
I remain astonished by the degree many kids truly depend on school lunch and afterschool snacks to tackle hunger pangs.
Terpischore’s Atrium with Kalisha Buckhanon
I am happy and blessed to share my interview with Shinjini Bhattacharjee, Editor-in-Chief of the fine new literary journal Hermeneutic Chaos, which published a portion of my new novel with much encouragement and interest in it (all writers need that thumbs up!). My interview appears in the journal's companion blog Morphemic Morphology. I hope our words inspire you. Blessings, Kalisha
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