Book from Lee Hawkins, who grew up and experienced abuse in Maplewood, insists 'I Am Nobody's Slave'
Lee Hawkins, a Pulitzer Prize finalist who grew up in Maplewood and hosts podcast "What Happened in Alabama?," connects ...
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Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor on holding back emotion, justice in ‘Nickel Boys’, and her family’s connection to the Jim Crow South
Actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor discusses her emotionally restrained performances and her latest role in ‘Nickel Boys’, where ...
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Guest columnist Alice Levine: There’s a lot more to Jim Crow than just the South
I grew up in Englewood, New Jersey in the 1960s, and was in elementary school during my city’s fight over school ...
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‘Nickel Boys’ an experimental must-see explores the loss of innocence in Jim Crow-era Florida
Sixty-two years ago, segregation under Jim Crow was completely legal and violently enforced in the South in states like Florida. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which would end legal segregation, wouldn ...
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‘Nickel Boys’: Framing beauty in irreconcilable circumstances
Framed through a first-person perspective, the story of two Black teens attending a harsh reformatory school during the Jim Crow South is layered by cinematographer Jomo Fray in a “symbolically ...