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Except for cable series like Showtime's Soul Food, TV is averse to dramas that star African Americans. Even UPN, with its stable of "urban" comedies, mostly populates its dramas with white folk and the occasional Vulcan. Platinum would be notable simply for its casting, but its blackness goes deeper. Writer and co-creator John Ridley (Three Kings) has produced a story about the ascendancy of black pop culture in America, not only among black people, and the ironies that result when the art of the dispossessed goes mainstream. Ridley, who is black, is fascinated by the world...
...album takes the band in new directions of sixties soul and Motown, leaving behind their reverb-filled punk-pop. Its perplexing title isn’t as philosophical as it may sound...
...independent soul, even way back then,” says Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Director James Yannatos, who worked with Adams during his time at Harvard...
...also refuted my assumption that conch was the last food frontier of a very brave soul. “Conch is a specialty. It’s very tasty,” she says. “The problem is that it is usually very costly and hard to come across. Plus, it takes a long time to cook. The meat is chewy, so it has to be boiled for a long, long time in a pressure cooker before it is soft enough...
...white dinner party with a big grin, promising, “Don’t worry, I’m not here to rob you!” He proceeds to give a sales pitch for “Amigros,” a new restaurant combining soul food and Mexican delicacies for a great ethnic dining experience. You’ll be eating “mucho good in the hood,” he says cheerily to a hysterical audience...