BLACK IN FOCUS
AMON WARMANN chews over the main moment in Black film and TV this month
THIRTY YEARS LATER, BOOMERANGREMAINS A PIONEERING BLACK CELEBRATION
THE FIRST TIME I watched Boomerang, I didn’t fully appreciate it for what it was.
Sure, it was the movie that first educated me on the importance of coordinating my clothes (rest in power, John Witherspoon). And as the eccentric supermodel Strangé, Grace Jones certainly left an impression with her formidable screen presence. But the significance of the movie with regards to both Eddie Murphy’s career and the Black movie landscape of the ’90s was lost on the teenage Amon.