Playing Malcolm X in “One Night in Miami” is a dream realized for the British actor, but drama school didn’t prepare him for all the disappointments along the way.
Both Sides Now: In Conversation With Lorraine OâGrady
Lorraine OâGrady outside of Manhattanâs Westbeth Artistsâ Housing, where she lives and works.Credit.Tiffany L. Clark
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Both Sides Now: In Conversation With Lorraine OâGrady
On the eve of her first major retrospective, the artist talks about her past, her process and the benefit of criticism.
Lorraine OâGrady outside of Manhattanâs Westbeth Artistsâ Housing, where she lives and works.Credit.Tiffany L. Clark
Published Feb. 22, 2021Updated March 1, 2021
rearranging them into lines of poetry, which she glued, mostly slantwise, onto sheets of rag paper: âDinner is reserved for/Twin Speech: A Language of Their Ownâ reads one spliced fragment. She was in her early 40s. Fifteen years earlier, OâGrady had worked as an intelligence analyst for the federal government. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, she was tasked with reading around 10 international newspapers a day and,
They Were Black. Their Parents Were White. Growing Up Was Complicated.
Georgina Lawton (Left), Rebecca Carroll (Right)Credit. Jamie Simonds/Loftus Media, Laura Fuchs
By Bliss Broyard
By Georgina Lawton
By Rebecca Carroll
For most of us, racial identity is a combination of inheritance (you are what your parents are) and influence (you’re a product of where and how you were raised). But what if you are raised by people who didn’t look like you, in communities where you were the only one, steeped in a culture whose power was amassed through your oppression?
In a pair of new memoirs “Surviving the White Gaze,” by the American cultural critic Rebecca Carroll, and “Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong,” by the British journalist Georgina Lawton two women recount growing up as Black girls with white parents who loved them deeply but failed them miserably by not seeing and celebrating them for who they were.