A Farewell is Interlude

Hello all! Whether you are sprinting to the end of the semester or being dragged, you deserve a celebration. Hopefully, we look at this time in a future free of pandemic and recount how even in a global crisis we showed resolve and showed up to class. It’s been a pleasure to provide my picks as a small reprieve from reality. But the reality is here and I’m here to deliver my final picks of the week. I hope this last batch can get you ready for the path forward! 

Playlist: “A Farewell is Interlude" 

Last week we left the house smelling of oil sheen, Dudu-Osun, and “Afros + Incense.”  This latest playlist is all about the transition, the fragile moments between the celebration of a year completed and melancholy of saying farewell - perhaps for a long time. This playlist is necessary as history intervened with our traditions of farewell and celebration. A “till next time” for the gala’s rescheduled, the romances dampened, and the accomplishment of keeping our sanity in it all.  Let us celebrate and mourn the sweet and bitter goodbyes. Remember - “a farewell is only interlude,” the comma, the colon, punctuation not to be mistaken for the story. 

Book: The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran

So I picked up a book back up that I called the most important read of 2017: The Color of Money. This book is a complete history of the formation of the racial wealth gap walking you from the capital sin of slavery, the economic nightmare that left Dr. King clinically depressed at the time of his death, to the modern fate of the Black bank. You can do no wrong by picking up this education to accompany your Sloan degree.

Movie: The Autopsy of Jane Doe  available through Netflix

Last week I hope you enjoyed the cute, cuddly suggestion of Oliver and Company. I’ll even throw in American Tail: Fievel Goes West for the parents in need of more child programming. Now it’s time to get comfy with “The Autopsy of Jane Doe.” I promise this isn’t some hack and gore film in. Rather an investigaton amongst a father and son coroner duo who can not understand the cause of the death of this Jane Doe due to some...irregularities. You will absolutely enjoy this film for its mystery and doom. 

Television: Dead to Me available through Netflix

Season two of Dead to Me has uploaded and I totally forgot how much of an absolute banger this is. Christina Applegate plays a widowed mother struggling to adjust to the grief of losing her husband to an unsolved hit and run. She will not stop, at times to her own detriment, until she can figure out who did the crime. She bonds with Judy, an eccentric artist who's recently suffered her own tragedy, at a support group. They instantly become each other’s support system and as their friendships evolve, the closer we get to the truth of a terrible secret. 

Best,

Edward