French existentialist Jean Genet, who was renowned as much for his criminal activity as for his literary output, concocted "The Blacks: A Clown Show" (1955) as a kind of surrealistic, postmodern minstrel show, in which the black actors re-enact the rape and murder of a white woman for a kangaroo court of white aristocrats.
French existentialist Jean Genet, who was renowned as much for his criminal activity as for his literary output, concocted “The Blacks: A Clown Show” (1955) as a kind of surrealistic, postmodern minstrel show, in which the black actors re-enact the rape and murder of a white woman for a kangaroo court of white aristocrats. Read More...
Wakefield, a native of Melbourne, Fla., began his professional baseball career in the '80s. The Pittsburgh Pirates originally selected him as a first baseman in the 1998 draft. He later became a pitcher, developing and perfecting the rarely thrown knuckleball, and played for two minor league teams until he was called up to the majors as a pitcher for the Pirates in 1992.
Three years later, he was released and signed as a free agent with the Red Sox, for whom he pitched for 17 seasons until he retired at age 45 as the oldest active player in the MLB at the time. Read More...
Sunday is typically the perfect time to relax and do some weekly reflection, but for Chrisean Rock, yesterday (September 3) was anything but calming. Rather, the 23-year-old was feeling virtually every emotion on the spectrum while she documented her trip to the hospital, her labour, and shockingly, the arrival of her son, Chrisean Malone. Blueface wasn't in the delivery room (something his Crazy In Love co-star says she specifically requested) and has failed to publicly acknowledge the arrival of his third child yet. Read More...