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‘Sinners’ Is A Jim Crow Southern Gothic Version Of ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’

Every now and again, a movie like Sinners comes around. Everyone seems to rave about it but I don’t see it. I don’t know why it’s been so hard for filmmakers in the last 10-15 to make good vampire movies. Maybe the Twilight franchise and True Blood series ruined it all. The last good vampireContinue reading “‘Sinners’ Is A Jim Crow Southern Gothic Version Of ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’”

Rosa Parks Refused To Give Up Her Rights And Sparked A Revolution

Rosa Parks wasn’t the first black woman in the south who refused to give up their seats to white passengers on the transit buses. Parks had been born into a world in Jim Crow Alabama where black people had very little civil rights. In 1900, the Montgomery City Council had passed an ordinance basically sayingContinue reading “Rosa Parks Refused To Give Up Her Rights And Sparked A Revolution”