latest ARTICLES by jordan
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Media, Movies, Review‘To All the Boys: Always and Forever’ is a Fitting Final Chapter
Watching the third chapter in the To All the Boys saga, Always and Forever, the expectation is one of diminishing…
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Editorials, Features, Literature, Review‘Trouble the Saints’ Is a Welcome Escape for Readers Who Miss NYC
Even with its enduring peculiarities, the pandemic has had its way of neutralizing New York. For many of us, it’s…
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Editorials, Features, LiteratureAlaya Dawn Johnson, ‘Trouble the Saints,’ and Stemming the Tide of White Power
There’s a scene where Phyllis—an assassin in 1940s Harlem—refers to a then-recent author, Zora Neale Hurston. It struck me for…
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Media, Movies, ReviewI Took a Chance on ‘The Prom’: Review
One of my favorite phenomena is when a lesser-known piece of pop culture manages to organically grow from obscurity. Perhaps…
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Features, Media, Movies, Review‘Wonder Woman 1984’ is Pure of Heart, Light on Depth
Three years after Wonder Woman’s 2017 premiere, the world looks quite a bit different–including the cinema world, as COVID-19 slowed…
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Media, Movies, Review‘Red, White and Wasted’ Is a Horror Movie of Trump Country
What Red, White and Wasted does well is inch back the curtain to show the beliefs and attitudes where the…
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Review‘Bee Fearless’ Wants You to Dream Like a Kid Entrepreneur
At the time of this writing, only 13 of the word’s 500 largest companies are led by women. Of those,…
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Media, Movies, ReviewLovebirds is Great Talent, Not a Great Movie
Led by Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani, The Lovebirds was meant to have a big screen release before the pandemic…
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Media, Movies, Review‘A Clear Shot’ is a Clear Miss
Theaters are closed, movies delayed, and access to press screenings are limited to streaming. There’s no better time to highlight…
