Sentences with phrase «black writers like»

Black writers like Kenneth Clark, who had detailed black «pathology» in his recently published book, Dark Ghetto, might be extolled for detailing black social problems.

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was pitched to an evangelical audience, it would go like this: Academy Award nominee Darren Aronofsky, the brilliant writer - director who gave us The Fighter, Black Swan and The...

Slate would like readers — and presumably food policy writers such as Black — to suggest ways of solving the obesity problem.

Her schedule can read like a map of multiculturalism in New York: opening a 24 - hour center for L.G.B.T.Q. youth in Queens, touring an urban farm in East Harlem, a Hispanic Heritage event at Gracie Mansion one night and a transgender theater performance another, opening a substance use clinic at the Gay Men's Health Crisis headquarters in Manhattan, attending a reading of writer James Baldwin at a center for black culture — all since late September.

The writer pointed out that lots of uniforms (police and the like) are navy and accessorized with black, and they always look damn snappy.

Thanks to recent high - profile events like Fashion Month and tons of fall movie premieres, Vogue writer Julia Hobbs says that celebrities and designers have had plenty of opportunities to show off their favorite little black dresses.

In an essay entitled The Reality of Dating White Women When Youre Black, writer Ernest Baker tackles big topics like Eurocentric beauty.

Movies like last year's «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,» for example, written and directed by «Lethal Weapon» writer Shane Black, got the spirit just right: Black's movie showed plenty of affectionate nostalgia for pulp tradition, but its sense of energy and movement felt wholly contemporary.

Writer / director James Toback, best known for movies like Bugsy, Two Girls and A Guy, and Black & White, is being accused by multiple women of sexual harassment over a 22 year period.

He hasn't exactly shaken up his approach since 1988's «Damnation» (that said, this writer — probably like most — isn't familiar with his crop of»90s short films), and if despairing (yet deeply moving) minimalist films composed of stark black - and - white single takes doesn't tickle your fancy, this film won't change your mind.

Now a new Amazon series, Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, will adapt the writer's work into a Black Mirror - like anthology featuring a highly impressive cast.

Black became the icon for every maître d with a script tucked underneath his podium — not only did «Lethal Weapon» get sold for top dollar — particularly for a first time writer — but it attracted top talent like Mel Gibson and Danny Glover and became an international sensation that spawned three equally lucrative sequels.

Given Idris Elba's recent observation about the glass ceiling faced by black actors in England, it's nice to see films like this being made (although it should be noted that although it's an English - Nigerian co-production, it was filmed in Nigeria at writer Biyi Bandele's request).

On the surface, The D Train looks like the archetypal Jack Black film as in previous outings like School Of Rock, he plays a small - town lummox who lies, cheats and alienates everybody around him but writer - directors Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul smartly play on the actors manic misanthrope persona to deliver something surprisingly subversive.

Author, journalist, and comics writer Ta - Nehisi Coates has already been entrusted with steering the legacy of Black Panther on the page, but it looks like he won't stay in Wakanda.

Writer / director Jordan Peele, like his «Key and Peele» partner Keegan - Michael Key, is biracial, which gives them both a lifelong experience with being both part of and observer of black and white culture and a lifelong fascination with code - switching, as we saw in their film «Keanu,» written by Peele.

It's a type she played most memorably in Kiss, Kiss Bang, Bang, a movie whose post-modern, meta - textual smartassery so resembles what Playing It Cool is trying to do, and feeling miserably at, that I just found myself wishing I was watching a Shane Black movie instead of a movie full of characters that, like, Shane Black, are movie - and - self - obsessed writers deeply in love with the sound of their (and by extension the screenwriters») voices.

And like director / writers such as Woody Allen or Quentin Tarantino, when you find actors who deliver your dialogue the way you intend it, you score a knock out, as Black did with the likes of Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer.

Cribbing from a popular 1987 action movie might sound like a tribute, were it not that The Nice Guys director Shane Black made a splashy debut as the 22 - year - old writer of said movie.

It needs that — Get Out is already eight months old and few films released in February are ever nominated for Academy Awards, let alone those made by black first - time writer - directors like Jordan Peele, and in the horror genre no less.

With its basic premise of a stranger keeping a struggling writer hostage, Black Butterfly (a remake of a 2008 French thriller of the same name) seems, on the surface, like little more than a variation on Misery.

The Filipino writer - director Lav Diaz is the definition of a «not for every taste» filmmaker: His movies are stark, long (like, four - plus hours long), and patience - testing, filmed mostly on black - and - white digital video in static master shots.

Black writers, reviewers and fans have lauded «Black Panther» for bringing a superhero to the silver screen that looks like them, after years of Marvel and DC movies casting black actors in supporting roles or bit parts, if atBlack writers, reviewers and fans have lauded «Black Panther» for bringing a superhero to the silver screen that looks like them, after years of Marvel and DC movies casting black actors in supporting roles or bit parts, if atBlack Panther» for bringing a superhero to the silver screen that looks like them, after years of Marvel and DC movies casting black actors in supporting roles or bit parts, if atblack actors in supporting roles or bit parts, if at all.

This stuff springs from the mind of the intriguing Shane Black, the successful writer of funny, subversive action films like Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout.

In the 1970s and 1980s, as trends like these began to arouse widespread commentary, conservative writers such as Charles Murray blamed public welfare programs for undermining black family life in the U.S..

Writer, activist and teacher, Pamela Lewis shared, «Many black and brown teachers are just as disengaged with our current school system as that of their students, and like many... Read More

It's like a black hole for writers.

It's Black Friday again, and this year I've put together an incredible offer for writers like you.

I think like a lot of writers, I started out enjoying making up stories way back as a kid and I have stories of «Black Stallion» rip - offs that I was writing in first or second grade back in the parents» house somewhere.

I'm friends with some outstanding writers published through Amazon's Thomas and Mercer imprint, people like Vincent Zandri and J. Carson Black, and their experience with Amazon has been universally outstanding.

Indeed, given the breadth and variety of convincing, dark characters at the heart of novels by the likes of Stephen King, Clive Barker and, now, Saul Black, one can only hope these writers are able to maintain good emotional and mental health.

One St. Martin's editor told Andrea that they liked her work, but they were already publishing Eleanor Taylor Bland: we have our black writer — like medical and law schools used to tell women applicants: «We have our woman student.»

This white ceramic mug in two — tones, black and white will surely make your writer friend feel like a superhero.

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Like many of us black travel writers and bloggers, I noticed the gap a long time ago.

What did the 1993 Whitney Biennial achieve, when we had, like, four white Artforum writers trying to explain racial inequality in Miami Basel during the Black Lives Matter protests?»

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

In Black Monolith V: Full Circle (2014), Whitten honors the writer Amiri Baraka, whose work addresses topics like black liberation and white raBlack Monolith V: Full Circle (2014), Whitten honors the writer Amiri Baraka, whose work addresses topics like black liberation and white rablack liberation and white racism.

This night, filled with Black artists, scholars, curators, stylists, and writers who have praised Ojih Odutola's genius for years and waited on places like the Whitney to catch up, felt like a collective triumph.

At sixteen, he ended up at Black Mountain College, where he resided on and off, studying painting with Joseph Fiore and Esteban Vicente while learning poetry from avant - garde writers like Charles Olson and Robert Creeley.

Truth is, Black Thumb, much like Writer's Block, doesn't really exist.

Brad dedicated himself to the craft, writing several novels and learning under the guidance of writers like Nancy Kress, Joe Haldeman, Tim Powers, Holly Black, Michael Swanwick, Kij Johnson, and many more.