More fantasy movie making. Like my previous pieces on Jennifer Teege (here) and Bass Reeves (here), there so many untold stories about extraordinary black people that beg for big screen treatment, you wonder why producers (especially in Hollywood) they keep making black rom-coms like the upcoming "The Perfect Match."
I was reading about the remarkable Bessie Stringfield, who was known as the “Motorcycle Queen of Miami,” and the first thing that came to my mind was, of course, she would be a fantastic subject for a movie.
Her story sounds like a screenwriter’s dream.
Born in Jamaica in 1911, her parents migrated to Boston, but later died when he was…
More fantasy movie making. Like my previous pieces on Jennifer Teege (here) and Bass Reeves (here), there so many untold stories about extraordinary black people that beg for big screen treatment, you wonder why producers (especially in Hollywood) they keep making black rom-coms like the upcoming "The Perfect Match."
I was reading about the remarkable Bessie Stringfield, who was known as the “Motorcycle Queen of Miami,” and the first thing that came to my mind was, of course, she would be a fantastic subject for a movie.
Her story sounds like a screenwriter’s dream.
Born in Jamaica in 1911, her parents migrated to Boston, but later died when he was…
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