A warning, this episode contains explicit language and discussion of sexual assault.

Welcome to a very special weekend edition of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour.

Today we're presenting the third and final installment of Screening Ourselves,

a series created by our host Aisha Harris. Hey Aisha! Hey Linda, we did it!

We did it! You made it! Yes.

In the previous episodes you explored the Godfather and its complicated legacy

within Italian-American communities. You talked about how basic instinct became a cultural

flashpoint in the fight for better queer representation on screen. So what is next?

Up next is a movie that I have a personal relationship with just having grown up,

having it on TV all the time when I was kid, and that would be The Color Purple from 1985.

And of course that was directed by Steven Spielberg and adapted from Alice Walker's

Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and starred Wobby Goldberg to Annie Glover at Loper Winfrey.

You know, big mainstream, tentpole movie. And it's one of those films that I think today is

generally regarded as a classic. People love it, but when it first came out, there was a lot of

tension and debate about how it depicted Black men and Black women and the Black family.

And this was coming at the time when there was a lot of hand-rearing and news and media about

all of these things. And so I just wanted to kind of look at that, examine how it's connected

to the present day and how we're still having all of the same conversations just in different forms

and in more real life examples. And yeah, so The Color Purple. All right, I cannot wait to hear it,

so take it away.

Near the end of The Color Purple, the character of Cele, who's played by Wobby Goldberg,

finally has a triumphant conversation with her abusive husband during a big family meal.

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