Welcome to Shamira Explains It All/Shamira Explique Tout, a culture newsletter discussing the origins and impact of Black production and exchange, identity, and intellectual property via our digital, social, and archival discussions - and whatever else may be timely and interesting. Part English, Part Francophone. Reach out with feedback, suggestions, tips, and ideas at contact@shamirathefirst.com.Share Shamira Explains it All This review of The Woman King was originally intended to be published at a publication (Mic at BDG) that recently laid off most of its editorial team, and so I am posting my critique here instead of going through the tedious labor of trying to place it at another publication.

This column is “It’s new to me,” in which I’ll play a game I’ve never played before — of which there are still many despite my habits — and then write up my thoughts on the title, hopefully while doing existing fans justice. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. Max Payne wasn’t Remedy Entertainment’s first video game. In 1996, they developed Death Rally for PC and MS-DOS, published by Apogee Software.

Angie. I’m so sorry. This journey has been so unfair to you and to others. There is a truth I’ve learned the hard way about leaders, Christian’s, Christian leaders, and myself - I admired many leaders God put in my 3 decades as a staff pastor working for large and small congregations in Midwest USA. I have served as a full time pastor in over 10 churches or Christian organizations. And half of those, my boss, my senior pastor, I discovered serious character flaws.

Yesterday, the Brooklyn fourpiece Big Thief wound up being the latest band who have cancelled gigs in Israel as a result of widespread pressure and bullying from the BDS movement. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I hate Big Thief, or 'Big Thief: 'I’ve never heard of them', because I don't, and of course I have. I remember the first time I heard their breakthrough album “Capacity” and its most noteworthy track 'Mythological Beauty'; it was August 2018 and I was living in East London briefly with a band who no longer talk to me.

Photo Credit: Unsplash Today’s post is a (free!) bonus because Tuesday’s wasn’t part of this planned series. But this woman is the reason I named the series “The Women Who Saved Christmas.” It’s a play on a sermon by my favorite Old Testament scholar and retired pastor, Dale Ralph Davis. You should listen to him. He’s amazing. It comes from 2 Kings 11:1-3: Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family.