![]() I’ve watched DuVernay celebrating Black girls reading A Wrinkle In Time with her #RealMeg tweets and they’ve warmed my heart. Now, DuVernay is being intentional with her endeavor to do the same for Black girls. But once published, the book went on to become a favorite in countless households because it did something significant for its readers, allowing them to see a girl at the forefront of a genre that had long been dominated by boys and men. With a girl at the helm of this fantastical odyssey, publishers rejected L’Engle’s work - twenty six of them, to be exact. ![]() ![]() It is Meg who must stand and face it, and she drives out the darkness with her light. “ It was a dark and stormy night…” So begins L’Engle’s novel, in which a darkness spreads across untold worlds. Based on Madeleine L’Engle’s novel of the same name, A Wrinkle In Time follows Meg’s interplanetary adventure in which she encounters ancient celestial beings and arcane dangers. They amaze me.Īva DuVernay’s newest film centers an amazing Black girl named Meg Murry, a precocious, but awkward little thing who embarks on a journey to find her missing father. Sometimes, they are too much for the world and it will ask them to shrink, to quiet their spirits, and put out their light, but Black girls shine anyway. ![]() Full of dancing, whirling winds and remarkable energy. Roaring tempests from the moment they come into being. ![]()
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