Wanda's Picks

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! John Lewis: Get in the Way on ITVS this evening. 10:30-11:30 ET (pbs.org) Kathleen Dowdey (Producer/Director). Award-winning filmmaker Dowdey's early work includes A Celtic Trilogy, a documentary exploration of the renaissance of identity in the Celtic nations; Blue Heaven,a narrative feature that exposes the hidden traumas of domestic violence; and Dawn's Early Light, a portrait of newspaper editor Ralph McGill, a segregationist-turned-advoc