What are the books by Black writers you would love to see reinterpreted on screen over and over and over again, the way we have with Jana Austen or Mary Shelley or the Brontës?

Some on my list: Annie John, Wide Sargasso Sea, Bluest Eye, Another Country, Americanah, and God Help the Child

Wide Sargasso Sea my colonized damn mind *sighs*

SULA

Women of Brewster Place definitely

Ok I was trying to retweet all responses but this thread has taken on a life of it's own, which is wonderful!

I hope it spreads like kudzu and finds an audience among development execs, producers, screenwriters, and directors!

Wouldn't it be wonderful if PBS started a new series in the vein of Masterpiece but instead it was dedicated to Black literature?

One of my uncle's is only 59, and he has stories about going to school in NC and being told Black people have no culture, no contributions, no intellectuals, and to all of that I say: LIES

The biggest practical hurdle to this is underwriting, which I wrote about in 2016.

Surely there's money out there for a project like this! https://theundefeated.com/features/why-are-black-brits-missing-from-pbss-masterpiece-because-theyre-missing-from-british-television/