Damien Dematra is releasing his film “Obama Anak Menteng”, meaning Obama, the Menteng Kid, an adaptation of his book about Obama’s years growing up in Jakarta, Indonesia.

a cousin of mine who worked for Junior Scholastic (yes, the one’s who used to make those social studies magazines that you read in school) sent me a book that changed my life a little while after the passing of my mother; i was no more than 12 years old. it was Shange’s novel Betsey Brown (which i also still own, tattered cover and all). i still find a new piece of myself in the main character every time i read that book…

[...]some commotion in the press room after the awards in which @TheMoniqueShow wanted to answer questions from the Black press first, and that she was a bit rude about it… he later went on to say that her reasoning was because the Black press core were the people that wanted to interview her when no one else did.

you are welcome on my show ANY TIME! word.

since i haven’t seen the footage in question, i can’t say one way or the other just how rude or right she actually may have been, but i WILL say this: stop hatin’ on Mo’Nique, folx. she deserved the award and she deserves our respect.[...]

I mean, the original was cool simply because the story centered on a bunch of kids who were actually like kids you may have gone 2 High School with… Leroy, Coco, Ralph… all classic characters who represented people who I sat in the cafeteria and sang with… people who I watched dance and sing and act heir hearts out… Did I mention I went to a performing arts high school? Probably, in part, because of these dynamic characters, and the actors and actresses who played them…