New Generation Annie

Jennifer Wilks is an associate professor of English and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She’s written a piece for xojane about the upcoming remake of Little Orphan Annie starring African American child acress Quvenzhané (Kwah-Vin-Jah-Nay) Wallis. She reminds us of Carmen Jones (from the 1943 musical and 1954 (…)

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