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And until the man I called Dad died two years ago, I did not know the truth about my existence. When my father was dying of cancer, we briefly touched on the idea that, despite sharing the same silly sense of humour, taste in music and political interests, our DNA was probably different. Although outsiders had constantly laughed at the idea of my parents being my own, we had managed to live in a white world where race and identity were never discussed — probably because no one except me had to worry about it.

Growing up — as I imagine is the case with other white families — no one spoke about racial politics and I thought I slotted into the same cultural category as everyone else in my life. And I saw that blackness was an intangible and wholly cultural concept that had no relevance to my life.

But I always had questions. Before he died, my father consented to giving me a DNA sample. A year later, as my grief was still casting shadows over my every move like a black cloud, I finally mustered the courage to get it processed in secret. But as the cancer slowly swallowed him, I found it impossible to press him further for the answers I had spent my life wanting. Plus, Mum told me to leave it. When I received an email stating that the paternity test results were inconclusive, I was utterly miserable, but still hopeful that I would somehow be related to the man who had taught me how to read, cook and ride a bike, and who differed from me only in appearance.

I was told by the company that the DNA of two random people differs by less than 0. Rage so strong it scared me coursed through my veins and hurtled towards my mother like a hurricane in our family home as I demanded answers. After I had grown hoarse from screaming, she finally confessed to a one-night stand with a black Irishman she met in a west London pub. I was taught to be defensive towards anyone who ever questioned me.

Or taught to avoid talking about race altogether. It was the strangers and new acquaintances who deliberately popped my protective bubble of whiteness time and time again. In nightclub toilets, on the street, at school, they demanded to know where I was from. The Real Deal prescribes guidelines, point by point, that make conversing with youngsters as normal as breathing -- and almost as easy. Yehuda Fine's book offers parents a hope-filled recipe for connecting with their youngsters. He is a family therapist in Evergreen this week to present a keynote address on school violence Yehuda reached out for me when I was a sixteen-year-old high school drop-out and helped me discover the beauty of my own hungry mind and thirsty spirit.

Not only have I lived a passionate intellectual and spiritual life of my own ever since, but Yehuda inspired me to dedicate myself to feeding the hearts and souls of hundreds of kids who are seeking a deeper experience than popular culture can offer. As the adoptive mother of two abused girls -- one who has flourished and one who died tragically -- I am especially touched by Yehuda's latest offering which is a life-line to parents.

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‘My mum always told me I was white, like her. Now I know the truth’

She is a professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of New Mexico and a certified grief counselor. He perhaps better than anyone knows how to repair the downed lines of communication between adolescents and adults. In Defense of Childhood.

Not only a great read, but a book every parent will find extremely helpful. This is the parenting book and is a one of kind endeavor, for no one has spoken to more teens and parents than Rabbi Yehuda Fine. A frontline spiritual warrior for the rights and survival of America's youth, whether they are struggling at home or adrift and written-off in the back alleys of our cities and towns.

But what gives added credence to this powerful book is that Yehuda Fine is also a father of a brood of fantastic kids of his own. He walks the walk, he talks the talk and he works tirelessly and boldly in a shadowy world that precious few have the courage to penetrate and most would like to ignore. He has helped shape the counseling technique used in my practice of adolescent medicine.

About the Author Yehuda Fine, rabbi, teacher, family therapist and author, spent 16 years on the guidance staff at Yeshiva University and rescued scores of runaway teens from the streets of New York as documented in his previous book, Times Square Rabbi. Today he is known as America's most streetwise family and teen expert. He regularly conducts seminars for public schools, private and alternative schools, parent groups, social service agencies, youth groups, hospitals, recovery centers and social workers. He is a popular guest on talk radio and TV nationwide, and a frequent contributor to scores of magazines and newspapers.

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Currently, he resides in Florida. His dog Brooklyn is always by his side when he goes bass fishing. His citrus trees are his gardening joy. He never misses spring training. Excerpted from The Real Deal: But Kristina is living with cancer and Potter is giving the performance of her career. She evokes empathy from the viewer while never allowing the viewer to pity Kristina.

Parenthood has quietly become one of the best shows on TV. Bell, Sinbad, Jada Pinkett Network: This Cosby Show spin-off had a rocky start, but after writing out Denise Huxtable and hiring Debbie Allen to oversee it before the second season, it turned into one of the most distinct sitcoms in TV history. Instead of focusing on one member of a beloved TV family in a new setting, it refocused on the setting itself, a historically black college called Hillman that was a fictional stand-in for Howard University.

Turns out, we might also have a crush on The Guild itself. It was recently announced that the show is done after three series of three episodes each though apparently there will be a feature film , and that length seems perfect. Also, Alice Morgan is one of the coolest criminals in any detective show. Daniel and Meg, the ecology-minded dumpster-divers preparing a meal for their friends from the leftovers of the neighborhood garbage. Peter and Nance, the cooing lovebirds asking about the precise provenance of their local chicken dish right down to the diet and plot of land over a dinner date.

Critically acclaimed, but with the tags left on. Up-and-coming, but with a wink and a nod. This is all very Portland. One Day at a Time. Covering everything from LGBTQ rights and immigration to dating and depression, the series is anchored by the two extraordinary women at its center: Rita Moreno and Justina Machado, whose chemistry as mother and daughter find fullest in expression in two wrenching late-season entries. There are probably times in most of our lives when we see our technological world as more of a dystopia than a utopia. The way it curbs our freedom, diminishes our privacy, and subjects us to anonymous attacks can feel like an unforgivable violation.

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The title is nearly perfect, as explained by creator Charlie Brooker: Mystery Science Theater From the depths of Minneapolis public access TV came MST3K , the show that forever changed how comedians and comedy audiences viewed the act of watching bad movies. At its creative peak during both the Hodgson and Michael J. The Return , which has one season in the tank and another on the way. The Returned Les Revenants. Based on a sublimely creepy film of the same name, Les Revenants hones its focus on one small town in France where a gaggle of formerly dead people return, alive and… mostly well.

Creator Fabrice Gobert does the right thing with this adaptation by simultaneously narrowing its focus and expanding the ideas behind the story over the course of its two seasons. It opened up a world of possibilities but he and his writers exercised remarkable restraint while also assuring viewers that they were going to see a story unlike any they had seen before.

Glenn Kessler, Todd A. Kessler, and Daniel Zelman Stars: Just when you thought Patty was pure evil, she would reveal her more vulnerable side. The first season follows the class action case against Arthur Frobisher Ted Danson , who has bilked his employees out of their life savings. But Damages pioneered this narrative device, simultaneously confusing viewers and allowing them to put together the puzzle.

For its final two seasons, the series moved to DirecTV, but now you can binge all five seasons on Netflix. Just stay away from Statue of Liberty bookends. Creator and showrunner Elizabeth Meriwether and her writing staff keep stepping up their game.

While even the best network programs are susceptible to lulls in quality due to the demanding plus-episode order, almost every New Girl episode plays like a spirited, comedic gem, with Meriwether and Co. Add in memorable turns from supporting players Lamorne Morris and Hannah Simone as well as the hilarious antics of Max Greenfield as breakout character Schmidt and the return of Damon Wayans as Coach, and New Girl has officially become a new standard for excellence in the sitcom community Mark Rozeman.

Laura Ricciardi, Moira Demos Network: He sued law enforcement, and while in the middle of that suit, he became the suspect of a brand new crime.

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A less acclaimed follow-up debuted in October Take the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold archetype, replace the hooker with a rough-around-the-edges bike club set in the ironically named town of Charming, Calif. Generally speaking, we like our comedies and our comedians to be funny. Sometimes you laugh so as not to wince, or just to keep yourself from shedding tears in front of your friends or in front of your own damn self.

The character development of Dexter Morgan over eight seasons was fascinating to follow. His moral code might be a world away from ours, but he often does a better job adhering to it than the rest of us. In addition to the constant edge-of-your-seat plot twists, each season gave us incredible guest stars as allies and antagonists, including Jimmy Smits, John C.

I love seeing shows by a theater company and watching the same actors take on new roles with each production: You witness their range and their ability to assume new identities. American Crime is a repertory theater company brought to the small screen.

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And unlike American Horror Story , which is all flash and gore, American Crime is rooted in harsh realities. The first season tackled an Army veteran killed during a home invasion. Felicity Huffman and Timothy Hutton play his grieving parents. From these starting points the series fans out to tackle a wide array of social, racial and socio-economic issues and to show how our lives, no matter what our circumstances, are interconnected.

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There are never easy answers or pat resolutions. Little did we know that this was only the beginning of a tragic, hilarious and epic tale that would start to take on the scope of an epic Russian novel. The original series was pioneering. Deep Space Nine and Voyager had their moments. Aden Young, Abigail Spencer, J. Rectify has a simple enough premise: A man sent to rot on Death Row is released from prison after 19 years. Daniel Holden, arrested for the rape and murder of his girlfriend, finds himself back in his hometown, greeted by constant life-threatening hostility.

Superbly acted, the program successfully meshes the best bits of a TV show together, managing to be at times heartbreaking and suspenseful, while also beautifully incorporating moments of effortless humor. Rectify is thought-provoking and will make you care about the future of its characters—like all the best shows do. Halt and Catch Fire. Christopher Cantwell, Christopher C. By the time Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Stop for a moment and consider those implications: We live in a country that has become so geeky on average, that an hour-long zombie drama can sometimes get more viewership than Sunday Night Football.

In terms of quality, the quest of the Grimes Gang to survive has been up and down, but the production values have always been impeccable. Marvel and DC have both tried to leverage their movie dominance onto the small screen many times over, but for a while, the only beloved recent TV show based on a comic book came from indie publisher Image with The Walking Dead.

That started to change with the first season of Daredevil. Both Fisk and Murdoch want to clean up the city, and will go to great lengths to do it. The difference between hero and villain is just a matter of ends-justify-the-means degrees. Not since Rick Grimes tangled with the Governor or Walter White went up against Gus Fring has there been a protracted battle this gripping on television.

One popular line of criticism has it that Narcos romanticizes the violence and degradation associated with the Colombian drug wars—and drug culture in general—and I would agree that the excellent Wagner Moura plays kingpin Pablo Escobar so engagingly that he becomes a sort of Walt White-esque antihero.

Nevertheless, this valid criticism misses the important point that we are watching a work of fiction based on historical figures—not a real documentary.

And when viewed that way, Narcos was one of the most successful new shows on TV, in how it managed to flesh out some very dark characters and tell a complicated story with such urgency and clarity. Justice Smith, Herizen F. Whether a function of its interest in the origins of hip-hop or the spirited optimism of its protagonists, determined to escape, or transform, the South Bronx, The Get Down is buoyed by its kinetic energies, even as it strains to bring its sprawling cast and sociopolitical interests into sharper relief.

Throughout the first few episodes, the camera combats the intermittent sluggishness of the writing, zooming, swooping, circling and retreating before cycling back to the beginning, painted all the while in bright swatches of color. The music is the story. However you look at it, House of Cards is certainly something you need to witness. Whether you watch all the episodes in one sitting or spaced out over a few weeks, the show has an undeniable draw that will suck you in.