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Regina King Has A Habit Of Keeping Her Eye On The Prize
MOVIES

Regina King Has A Habit Of Keeping Her Eye On The Prize

Regina King A Los Angeles, California, native and an utter sensual delight, has a habit of keeping her eye on the prize. This driven star has refused to look back since achieving her first onscreen success as Brenda Jenkins on the 1985 television series 227. After giving emotionally wrenching and erotically charged performances as Sahlika in Boyz N the Hood (1991) and Iesha in Poetic Justice (1993), Regina became a face and figure of note in big-budget extravaganzas ranging from A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996) to Mighty Joe Young (1998) and Daddy Day Care (2003). Love and Action in Chicago (1999) gives us some idea of how not to maneuver Regina into bed. Playing couch polo with a shirtless man, King allowed her blouse to be unbuttoned, but the dude, perhaps overeager at the sigh...
The First Black Winner Of The Nobel Prize – Wole Soyinka
BOOKS

The First Black Winner Of The Nobel Prize – Wole Soyinka

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth: A Novel (Unabridged) A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly half a century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Dr. Menka shares the grisly news with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer, and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne. The life of every party, Duyole is about to assume a prestigious post at the United Nations in New York, but it now seems that someone is deter­mined th...