LisaGay Hamilton

Apr 26, 2024 | poetryinamerica.org | Evie Shockley |Steven Allardi |Robin D.G. Kelley |LisaGay Hamilton

Billie Holiday’s haunting song “Strange Fruit” winds beneath the unsettling, satiric humor of Evie Shockley’s poem “you can say that again, billie.” Shockley, jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, historian Robin D.G. Kelley, actor LisaGay Hamilton, novelist Beverly Lowry, and radio host Nick Spitzer join Elisa New to discuss the history of racism, violence, and artistic tradition in the American south. Special thanks to our humanities advisers: Dr. Joshua Bennett; & Raquel Kennon.

Nov 30, 2023 | yesmagazine.org | LisaGay Hamilton

Film and television portrayals of older women, especially women of color, are limited in number and scope. A 2019 study by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media found that nearly three-quarters of on-screen characters over the age of 50 are men. When older women are cast, they are more likely than their male counterparts to play roles that are “senile,” “homebound,” “feeble,” or “frumpy.” Further, older characters are less racially diverse than younger characters.