GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI (1996)
True story of how a white Miss.D.A. & the widow of slain NAACP leader Medgar Evers finally brought the murderer to justice years later.
I Kill Giants (2017)
A young, imaginative girl traumatized by grief conjures up “giants” but fortunately is befriended by a classmate & her school counselor.
Important Books in My Life
Sunday (Sept. 18) was the beginning of National Book Banning Week, so this is the first of a series of reminiscences about the influence of books in my life, something I have been thinking about for a long time. I don’t know if any of them have been banned, but each has been important …
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
A girl growing up alone in a Southern marsh, forgotten by a lover who goes away & accused of killing another, succeeds as an author.
Petit Maman (2021)
A magical tale in which a lonely girl during a period of grief meets in the woods her mother at the same age as she.
The Underground Railroad (2021)
Set in an imaginary South where the Underground Railroad sends real trains through tunnels, this is the story of Cora who boards it in Georgia in her quest for freedom.
Crip Camp (2021)
How in the 60s an upstate NY camp for disabled help shape many of the activists who went on to fight the federal government for equal rights.
The Devil All the Time (2020)
A multi-generational Gothic tale of bloody religion, murder, and retribution set in Appalachian Ohio & West Virginia.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)
An eventful day in 1927 racist Chicago where Blues singer Ma Rainey records a song and faces off against her rebellious horn player & White producers.
Lovecraft Country (2020)
In this roadtrip first episode a Black Korean War vet, his uncle, & f woman travel to Lovecraft Country in MS in search of his father, encountering much racism along the way.