Tyler Perry has made over half a billion dollars through the development of storylines about black women, black communities and black religion. Yet, a text that
This critical study interrogates the intersection of race and gender media representations on screen and behind the scenes. The thought-provoking investigation
Every weekday, the wildly popular Tom Joyner Morning Show reaches more than eight million radio listeners. The show offers broadly progressive political talk, a
With this remarkable study, historian Keira V. Williams shows how fictional matriarchies—produced for specific audiences in successive eras and across multipl
This book explicates how many films intersect black suffering and God-talk in ways that instantiate secular limitations to divine efficacy. The book’s concept