Jul 14, 2025
ᴘʜᴏᴛᴏɢʀᴀᴘʜs ᴄʀᴇᴀᴛᴇᴅ ʙʏ ɢᴏʀᴅᴏɴ ᴘᴀʀᴋs to illustrate his 1963 autobiographical novel The Learning Tree. Later, in 1969, Parks adapted the book into a film that he produced and directed.
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ᴘʜᴏᴛᴏɢʀᴀᴘʜs ᴄʀᴇᴀᴛᴇᴅ ʙʏ ɢᴏʀᴅᴏɴ ᴘᴀʀᴋs to illustrate his 1963 autobiographical novel The Learning Tree. Later, in 1969, Parks adapted the book into a film that he produced and directed.
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Exploring Black Southern Gothic: 9 Films You Must Watch
The Southern Gothic has always thrived on haunted mansions, decaying landscapes, and stories of secrets festering beneath polite society. There is a mythic power to these stories and these films don’t just borrow Gothic trappings, they transform them, reframing the South through Black history, spirituality, and imagination. The result is a body of work that feels both timeless and overlooked:…
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House of Black
The EVPs
The Patriarchy
The Don Callis Family
The Undisputed Kingdom
The Learning Tree
The Righteous
The Dark Order
Shane Taylor's Promotions
Bang Bang Gang
Cage of Agony
La Facción Ingobernable
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Me to The Learning Tree
I can’t be the only one who’s absolutely loving these found family angles on AEW rn
Like Samoa Joe just taking Hook and Shibata under his wing? Adorable.
Kyle O’Reilly being Mark Briscoe’s little hype man? So cute.
Billy Gunn quite literally just adopting The Acclaimed and treating them better than his own sons? Spectacular, gimme 14 of em.
Whatever the hell is happening with Kyle Fletcher and Will Ospreay rn? Yes please.
Willow Nightingale and Orange Cassidy teaming up after they got betrayed? Biggest of smooches.
And as much as I hate to say it, what Chris Jericho is doing with Big Bill and Bryan Keith is kinda cute too.
I could go on forever but unfortunately I might die from the cuteness. Whoever decided to make professional wrestling wholesome and adorable I love you.
🌻 Juneteenth Reflection: The Learning Tree, Black Memory, and Emotional Burdens
"We come bearing stories that we did not create or write.”
This Juneteenth, I’m reflecting on Gordon Parks’ “The Learning Tree” through the lens of Black memory, inheritance, and the silent emotional burdens boys and men are often taught to carry. It’s more than a coming-of-age story; it’s ancestral lore on survival and becoming.
Not simply as a film, but as a cultural archive—a story preserving Black childhood, Black grief, Black hope, and Black possibility.
🌹 Read the full essay on Sallie’s Garden in Substack. Link in bio or click here: What The Learning Tree Teaches Us About Inheritance, Survival, and Becoming Find the link in bio and select [💌 Read My Latest Reflections] to enter the Garden.
I hope your Juneteenth is filled with good food, music, meaningful reflection, and a connection to the generations whose stories illuminate our own.
May these words resonate with those who need them, and may this piece continue to tend the garden.
Happy Juneteenth. 🤎✨🎶🌳📚
— Tended by Kiara. 🌹🎶