Speaking with reality TV star Uriel on Inside Scoop by Pulse, Amaka delved into her craft as an actress stating how serious she takes her work. She stressed that for her, all that matters is delivery and described how she gets herself ready to deliver her scenes. "Acting is about delivery. You have to deliver. The people watching it are not going to hear that I had menstrual cramps or I had a bad day. Read More...
August 10, 30 BC — There are two widely held beliefs about Cleopatra, the legendary Queen of Egypt, who is said to have died on this day. First, that she was beautiful; and second, that she met her death by clutching a poisonous snake to her bosom.
Unfortunately, neither “fact” is necessarily true. On her appearance, the ancient writer Plutarch reported that Cleopatra’s beauty was “not altogether incomparable,” and that it was instead her mellifluous speaking voice and “irresistible charm” that made her so desirable. Read More...
"I do not believe that a long-dead, British guy is the only writer who can teach my students about the human condition," wrote a teacher in the Washington Post in 2015—referring, of course, to none other than William Shakespeare. The following year, students at Yale University petitioned to “decolonize” the literary canon demanding that pre-1800/1900 courses encompass a study of “literatures relating to gender, race, sexuality, ableism, and ethnicity.” Around the same time, students at the University of Pennsylvania removed a portrait of Shakespeare replacing it with a printed photo of Audre Lorde the Black Feminist poet and novelist in order to protest the overemphasis in English degrees on white male authors Read More...