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...walls and the ceiling, offers a nice view of green grass. Nibble on a fresh mozzarella sandwich and ponder Harvard’s strange fascination with concrete. It’s true that pretty much anything goes with gray, but in the spring a little more color would be nice. Inside, Calla Lilly is rather drab, with little in the way of decoration. The sole poster is one of a very young Michael Jordan wearing a blue button-down with a silver tie: “No Brain, No Gain. Stay in School...
...when actresses were not merely ornaments to stud stars, and women's roles were not appendages in macho movies. Then, the dream factory custom-made its shiniest vehicles to suit the likes of Garbo, Stanwyck, Crawford, Lombard, Monroe, Shirley Temple and two ladies named Hepburn - but not anyone of color, no matter how talented or glamorous she might be. That was the way things were. Hollywood relegated blacks, actors and actresses, to the corner of the frame, to menial roles, to dialogue that usually ran the tiniest variations on "Yes, boss" and "Now see here, Miss Scarlett...
...shelf of books about race films. Here are a few from my own shelves: Thomas Cripps' "Slow Fade to Black: The Negro in American Film, 1900-1942" (mostly about 30s Hollywood's view of race relations); John Kisch and Edward Mapp's "A Separate Cinema," replete with hundreds of color reproductions of movie posters and a good Bogle introduction; and Henry T. Sampson's invaluable "Blacks in Black & White: A Source Book on Black Films," which offers the most detailed history of the companies that produced black-cast films and the personalities who made them fascinating as art and artifact...
...That's Washington. Seeing her, the white viewer thinks: Join us! Elevate the race - ours. The movie screen is only skin-deep, and surely glamour counts more than an ancestor's color. Peola thinks that; she glides on the edges of white society and wonders why, if Bea could ascend to it via money, a light-skinned young woman couldn't do it with prettiness. She has a wonderful mother who is exactly the wrong mother for her, so far apart are their respective ideas of what is possible and proper. Peola runs away from home, finds a job - cashier...
Small said that although drug use was relatively consistent across racial groups, a disproportionate number of those arrested or convicted for drug use “are poor people or people of color...