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"At this point in my career if I'm not paying a price to play the role, then it's really not worth it," The Equalizer's Lorraine Toussaint tells Newsweek.
Black Diaspora Louis Chude-Sokei: “It was accents and curses, uncles and aunties, cousins and endless trips to Western Union.” February 3, 2021 Diaspora was one of those words from my mother’s “word of the month” or “word of the week” subscriptions. What made it stick out was that I heard it repeated around the table. The word meant the scattering of a people across different lands and countries and languages. To me, this meaning seemed immediate, oppressively intimate. It wasn’t just about the Middle Passage and slavery in the New World. It wasn’t even about our more s...