'Magical Negro' Carries The Weight Of History
Morgan Parker's new poetry collection explores the ways African-American lives are affected by historical events, even though they may have happened decades or centuries ago.
The Magical Negro: That's the trope in literature and movies where a black character appears in a plot solely to help a white character — and then vanishes.
Think Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance or Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile. In her new book of poems, called Magical Negro, Morgan Parker strives to reclaim the term.
"I really wanted to rethink that
