An award-winning actress and playwright, Taylor is partnering with Columbia College on the Black Mixtape project, a program inspired by her socially minded conversations about Black Lives Matter and the pandemic. Its theme is entitled “Stand Up, Speak Out.” And those words move deeper than their catchy phrasing. Taylor wants submissions, centered for necessary conversations, … Read more
He’s not the most prolific of American filmmakers, but he may be one of our best. Paul Thomas Anderson has made just one film in the 2020s, and only 3 in the last 15 years, but every single one has been a cinematic event. (Those last three, if you’ve forgotten, were Inherent Vice, Phantom Thread, and Licorice Pizza. Pretty … Read more
<span id=”selection-marker-1″ class=”redactor-selection-marker”></span> A native of Dallas, Texas, actress Regina Taylor earned praise early in her acting career for portraying Minnijean Brown, a member of the Little Rock Nine, in 1981’s “Crisis at Central High.” She gained the attention of mainstream audiences in 1989’s “Lean on Me,” in which she played an auspicious student’s drug-addicted mother. For … Read more