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by Angela Poe Russell It was a plot twist many didn’t see coming: A horror movie that left people talking, not only about the story, but about its electrifying music. Miles Caton as Sammie Moore in Warner Bros. Pictures' "SINNERS." Courtesy Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc, 2025. SINNERS is the kind of movie that doesn’t come around too often. As I left the theater with a myriad of feelings, I couldn’t help but think that Director Ryan Coogler and company had successfully bent a genre, turning...

p.y.t. by Amber Flame i want my joy a bouncy-bottomed young thing, with more energy than I can comprehend for that which will bring me pleasure. i want debaucherous joy, sweet, slippery joy, a joy that can come again and again and again unceasing. i want to hit joy's freak button. to get all the way down & nasty with joy, walk around smelling like joy just came all over my face and i couldn't get drunk on joy fast enough to catch it all. i want joy so delicious i mourn what spills onto...

Essay by Dr. Ethelene Whitmire Exhibit Curator University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professor, Department of African American Studies The Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century  exhibition is an expansion of my research about African Americans in Denmark. In 2010, I went to Copenhagen on a whim. I was watching a lot of Danish films and decided to spend two months abroad during my first year-long sabbatical from my job as a professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. During...