::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

Causation does not always equal correlation. President Donald Trump Let's talk about the soul of America. I don't recognize my country anymore. When I look around, this is what I see. . . People are tensely navigating life wearing masks appearing to be zombies. Blood and smoke fill our streets from civil unrest. Toppled statues are crumbled on the ground in cities where some people are tired of being reminded of the past those statues symbolize. In public places, people act out more aggressively using insulting words and gestrures. Some of us are using our rights and freedom to be inconsiderate and harmfuil to others. Families are pulling up by the van loads to get food assitance as millions of American workers are out of jobs. From fires to hurricanes and earthquakes, we have not gotten a break from bad weather impacting some part of the country. This is a feast or famine, survival of the fittest environment. In my lifetime, I have never seen the level of advers...

buzzz worthy. . . By Mona Austin Critics agree that "Fences" starring Oscar winners Denzel Washington and Viola Davis is one of the best films of 2016. However, because it was originally a Pulitzer Prize winning play some of the nuances and motifs that playwright August Wilson executed on stage were lost in the film adaptation some reviewers are saying. A film that explores the troubles of black manhood during 1950s Pittsburg in such an intricate manner and the impact it had on the family structure and black community at large deserves to be understood as it was intended. Denzel Washington ad Viola Davis in "Fences." The most obviously centered metaphor Wilson uses is a literal fence. For the woman of the house (Davis) who asked that it be built it is postive, protective. The son who is building it uses the fence as a barrier to keep her out emtoionally. One of the lessons in "Fences" is that not dealing with self-imposed or circumstantia...