Style. Class. And an X chromosome. These are the ingredients for a successful detective.
Phryne Fisher and Jessica Fletcher. dynamic crime fighters whose attention to detail have foiled the plans of many criminals
These damsels are not in distress they are in fact applying stress to all who dare to break the law. Listen as the Sistas explain what makes them so good.
Episode 4 She Murdered It
Call the Midwife has been one of my favorite shows for years. But this year I made a discovery. You can watch this show online at pbs.com. No streaming service is needed.
This show is about a group of nuns and nurses who are midwives in a section of London on the 1950s and 60s. I like shows that trying to help me understand what life was like in another place and time. But this is not a family show unless you ready to have that talk about where babies come from. And think about this…babies have been born at home way longer than they have been born in hospitals.
The characters are fun and the storylines can be corny. Sister Monica Joan is my favorite, but I don’t understand crap she say. The last couple of years, they have begun casting people who look like me. Yay! Give it a try.
When I first saw this work by Warrick I thought WOW.
In Memory of Mary Turner: As a Silent Protest Against Mob Violence
This sculpture, depicting a woman cradling an infant in her arms and leaning away from grasping hands and flames at the base, was created in response to the vicious lynching of a young woman named Mary Turner in 1918. Mary Turner’s husband had been lynched and she publicly denounced his murder. In response, a mob of hundreds captured her, hung her upside down from a tree, and brutally killed her and her unborn child.
Artist Meta Warrick Fuller’s sculpture is one of the first created by an African American specifically depicting the brutality of lynch mobs.
Museum of African American History, Boston & Nantucket
“Peace, Love and Crime Fighting!
1970 brought us some of the hippest, coolest crime fighters in the hottest threads! They kept the streets crime free and dazzled all the foxy ladies” or at least that is what the Sistas thought.
Listen to this episode to find out who these great crime fighters were. 1970 Detective Shows
African American stories were not told during her time. At least not the truth. She became known for using her work to address social injustice towards African Americans during her lifetime. Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was a poet, painter and sculptor at the turn of the 20th Century. Born in Philadelphia in 1877, her parents were able to send her to a good school which helped develop her artistic ability. Her parents were part of the African American middle class with successful businesses.
Fuller’s work was shown in high school projects at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. She received a scholarship to a university and after graduation, she moved to Paris, France to study with Raphael Collin. Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African American painter to gain international fame, was also a family friend.
In 1907 Fuller won a gold medal for her work in an exhibition at the 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial. She created 150 dioramas depicting the progress African Americans had made from when slaves landed in Jamestown to the beginning of 1900.
I am so in for this week’s show. Leverage Redemption! It is the continuation of the old Leverage series that ran from 2008 to 2012 starring Timothy Hutton. It had this whole Robin Hood theme where they robbed the rich to give to the folks they took advantage of. It is a fun show to watch because they always have to work their way out of a situation.
In the reboot, three of the old characters take on new partners to do the same thing. Where I have really become happy with series that are just 8 episodes, I was excited to see they added a few more in this new series. Gina Bellman is still the grifter, Christian Cane the hacker and Beth Riesgraf as the thief. They added Noah Wylie and Aleyse Shannon to the team.
They also have added great guest stars, like Levar Burton. This show is on the IMDB channel. Fall in love with show, like I have.
I never knew how hard Ella Fitzgerald worked to be as good as she was. Ella Just One of Those Things is a new documentary on Netflix that tells story of the singer with people who were her contemporaries. It will introduce you to pieces in her catalog with a story or two behind them.
Fitzgerald’s resilience stood out to me. It was inspiring to see someone with a vision from their teenage years make it happen despite the struggles life through her way. It is stories like this that would encourage other women to not give up. Although her life was not perfect, her music was.
She and her generation open doors for today’s performers by working in places where they could not even eat or sleep. Stories like this remind us of the price that was paid to get to modern day. Something we all needed to be reminded of.
In a country where murder is usually very violent and action packed, the Sistas find a new type of murder. The weapons were not always a gun or knife nor was the crime always obvious. The Sistas have found some new shows that are very intriguing.
Listen Season 3 Episode 2
Sherlocked
Season 3 is about the genre the Sistas love the most. Murder and Mayhem. This season they will take on all of the aspects of the Murder Mystery and how it has been told.
In Episode 1, the Sistas examine the ones who have portrayed the greatest detective of them all: Sherlock Holmes.
From Victorian England to New York City, crimes are solved, criminals are nabbed, with Watson riding shot gun it is all elementary. The Sistas try to determine who is the greatest Holmes of all.
Check out the various interpretations of the world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes
If you haven’t seen the new Fantasy Island, give it a try. Roselyn Sanchez takes on the role as the operator of the island, as Ms Roarke. Like the old show, there is an array of guest stars which make it fun to watch. It also gives some back story to how Elena came to take over for her great uncle. They also give Elena Roarke a story of her own , complete with love interest. This show is on Fox.
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