Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Playing the titular character, Janet Jackson portrayed the lyrical and bereft Justice, who was grieving the loss of her boyfriend ...

I remember the very first time I saw Poetic Justice. Even at a young age, I was captivated by the thick, waist-length box braids combined with the black hat and oversized dad jeans. Back then, that ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. On an upcoming episode of my podcast, “Dear Culture,” I decided to ...

Poetic Justice (1993) remains a fan-favorite film over two decades after its release. Created by John Singleton, it stars Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, Regina King, and Joe Torry. Jackson is featured ...

Jackson launched her solo career in the early 1980s. But for the first few years of her career, her moves were dictated by her father, Joe Jackson, who worked as her manager. In the early 1990s, ...

(The Root) — John Singleton’s Poetic Justice was released in 1993 during a watershed period that saw a number of black films entering theaters. Janet Jackson starred as Justice, a poetry-loving ...

Recently it was reported that a hunter who had shot an elephant was crushed when it fell over dead on top of him. A friend emailed the story to me with one word in the subject line: “Justice!” ...

While working on her graduate school thesis in 2013, she stumbled upon a topic that would change hers. Stackable learned that her home state of Oklahoma has the highest rate of female incarceration in ...

Poetic Justice is a 1993 romantic drama about a woman named Justice, played by Janet Jackson, who loses her boyfriend in an act of violence. Throughout the movie, she recites mournful poems about her ...

“ JUST as might have happened in the old poetical-justice days,” says a brilliant critic in a recent account of a drama. Is poetic justice, then, obsolete? Was it ever a legitimate element of dramatic ...