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In the summer of 2020, social justice protests and the removal of Confederate monuments rock the city of Richmond, Virginia, as the marriages of two estranged sisters implode. When Cynthia’s husband, Bobby, can no longer hide his dire financial situation, their union finally ruptures. Melissa, her sister, has dedicated herself so fully to racial justice activism that she becomes alienated from her own Black husband.

Following an unforgettable cast of characters and a jaded female P.I. enmeshed in a criminal conspiracy in 1980s Mississippi, The Queen City Detective Agency is a riveting, razor-sharp Southern noir that unravels the greed, corruption, and racism at the heart of the American Dream. Meridian...

Un uomo nero attraversa queste tracce e ne è il protagonista, al tempo stesso schiacciante ed evanescente. Il suo nome è Anders Behring Breivik. Incarnazione ennesima e depotenziata del Male Assoluto, degenerazione contemporanea, rigida e contraffatta, di qualche remota saga nordica, filtrata dall'inespressività 2.0, l'autore della strage di Oslo e di Utøya nel luglio del 2011 è persona fisica e simbolo. Giuseppe Genna lo ha ascoltato, letto, seguito, studiato e provocatoriamente incrociato con gli elementi sparsi di una propria autobiografia.

VOICES: a sacred sisterscape, spearheaded by Grammy-nominated poet aja monet (When The Poems Do What They Do), is an audio experience of stories written by, narrated by, and centering Black women across the diaspora. It encourages radical listening for the sake of connection, compassion, and community and celebrates the interior lives Black women embody. “We seek to encourage and establish a culture that fosters radical truth-telling love & solidarity,” —aja monet, Artistic Creative Director, Voices at V-Day.