Peto kinsaka biography books
Some of the most fun book-based movies to watch are those based on books we are all familiar with from our school days.
After being raped by the man she believes is her father (Leonard Jackson) and giving birth to Adam (Peto Kinsaka) and Olivia (Lelo Masamba), Celie must hand....
10 Movies Adapted From Black Writers and Playwrights
The development of African American literature dates all the way back to the founding of the country, as Phillis Wheatley, a Black woman educated by her masters, was able to publish a book of poetry.
She gained her freedom not too long after, but Wheatley’s publication marked the very beginning of a long literary tradition in the United States. While some may think of contemporary classic writers like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison when asked about what Black writers shaped the modern Black literary traditions, African Americans have been telling their stories through a myriad of ways, whether it’s through Harlem Renaissance poems and dramas, slave narratives, or oral traditions.
Some of the biggest classics in the American Black canon have become movies.
While we go through a period of increased representation for African Americans on screen, showing their stories in ways that were unlike the not-so-distant past, s
