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Category: Black Heritage Month

January 20, 2018 Jana J. Monji

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: ‘Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart’ ✮✮✮✮

November 24, 2016 Jana J. Monji

AFI FEST 2016: ‘Carmen Jones’ ✭✭✭

November 7, 2016November 7, 2016 Jana J. Monji

‘Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise’

October 10, 2016October 31, 2016 Jana J. Monji

‘Roots’ 2016✭✭✭, ‘Django’ and #BlackLivesMatter

October 10, 2016October 31, 2016 Jana J. Monji

Remembering Robert Shaw and the 1989 ‘Glory’✭✭✭✭✭

October 7, 2016October 31, 2016 Jana J. Monji

‘The Birth of a Nation’ Continues Legacy of Controversy✭✭✭

September 21, 2016October 31, 2016 Jana J. Monji

‘Free State of Jones’ an Important, But Flawed Film ✭✭✭

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  • ‘The Terror: Infamy’: Episode 1 ‘A Sparrow in a Swallow’s Nest’ August 13, 2019
    AMC’s horror drama anthology series, “The Terror” for its second season focuses on another historic event, the Japanese American internment camps during World War II. Premiering on 12 August 2019, this season was developed by Alexander Woo (“True Blood”) and Max Borenstein (“Godzilla,” “Kong: Skull Island” and “Godzilla: King of the Monsters”) and includes s […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Bruce Lee, Tarantino and ‘Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood’ August 10, 2019
    Recent news about “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood” has given me renewed appreciation for Brad Pitt, but research has led me down a different movie theater aisle for Quentin Tarantino. No spoilers, here, but as I was re-watching the 1994 “Pulp Fiction,” a movie that I enjoyed despite the violence because of the editing and […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’: Perfect Balance of of Fright for Family Friendly Gore ☆☆☆☆ August 10, 2019
    When I was a kid, I read a lot of short stories, particularly ones about hauntings and horror. “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” is a series of short horror stories for children, written by Alvin Schwartz. I haven’t read them, but the stories are popular enough that three collections were published: “Scary Stories […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Ms. Geek Speaks: A Tale of Two Women August 7, 2019
    People who know me have probably heard at least one of these stories, but this is a tale of two women when it once was a tale of just one. This is a story about race and racism in Southern California. When I was an undergrad, I didn’t have a car so I traveled by […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Asian American Host for Music/Travel Program ‘Now Hear This’ on PBS August 6, 2019
    Although his parents wanted him to go to Harvard and be a lawyer, when Scott Yoo got a hold of a violin, that sealed his fate. Yoo began studying music at three and by 12, he performed Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the Boston Symphony. In the PBS program that he will host “Now Hear This,” he’ll […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘The Art of Racing in the Rain’: Get Ready for Tears ☆☆☆☆ August 6, 2019
    My dog and I know something about racing in the rain. Running on the wet grass during a lightning-and-thunder wet weekend in Utah years ago at the beginning of our competitive agility career, I slipped and fell and my dog came to comfort me. Later, we would be the only ones in our class to […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘The Farewell’ : Culture, Democracy and Cancer August 4, 2019
    Is there an Asian American who hasn’t heard “go back home,” particularly in these Trumpian times? Is there an East Asian who hasn’t heard, “Go back to China/Japan/Korea”? Sure, some West Asians may be white passing, but that’s like being a secret Asian agent. Undercover, undiscovered, but not understood. Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell” warmly depicts […] […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • Sebastian Yoon and ‘College Behind Bars’ on PBS August 2, 2019
    This wasn’t the way things were supposed to end up. A karaoke night ended up with jail time for Sebastian Yoon. Yoon is one of several inmates who earned a college degree in the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) profiled in Lynn Novick’s “College Behind Bars” which is scheduled to air on 25-26 November 2019. First […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • SDCC: Game On–Doctor Who, Walking Dead and Alice Space August 2, 2019
    Due to the new Comic-Con Museum off-site and a four-hour wait for one activation, I wasn’t able to fully immerse myself in the demonstrations of video games, especially at Future Tech but as someone who doesn’t spend a lot of time playing video games, I can tell you what I liked. BBC America had short […]
    Jana J. Monji
  • ‘Carnival Row,’ ‘The Expanse’ and the Tyranny of the Line at SDCC 2019 August 2, 2019
    At SDCC, people wait in lines. Sometimes you choose the wrong line. Who hasn’t? Sometimes the line is chosen for you. Sometimes the masters of the line are unfair.  And perceived unfairness–real or imaginary–causes anger to percolate and heat up your insides. If you can’t say anything such injustice might weigh heavily on you, like […]
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