Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters®

— a podcast where we talk about historical drama series and films. Biopics, Adaptations, and Costume Dramas—stories that give us a window to the past, and a mirror of the present. Makers, writers and other guests join us in the conversation about what’s new in historical drama and what’s worth watching. Hosted by real-life sisters Michon and Taquiena Boston who binge on historical drama.

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  • Michon is a writer (New York Times, Washington Post Magazine, Washington CityPaper) and media impact producer who works with documentary and narrative films to raise awareness and inspire action on the critical concerns of our times. She is also a cultural historian, and walking tour guide who brings the history of DC’s jazz age and literary history to life. Michon is the author of “Iola’s Letter: The Memphis Crusade of Ida B. Wells,” a play about the anti-lynching newspaper woman and activist, Ida B. Wells. She is writing a play inspired by “The Three Musketeers” author Alexandre Dumas’s food writings. While a student at Oberlin College she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to research the history of Black women who attended Oberlin in the 19th and 20th centuries.

 

Meet The Boston Sisters

Michon and Taquiena Boston are real-life sisters who grew up surrounded by history in Washington, DC, where their parents introduced them to movies and took them to museums as entertainment.

 


  • Taquiena Boston, a culture change strategist and coach, has earned theater degrees from Howard University and the University of Michigan. In addition to streaming and binge watching historical drama, Taquiena enjoys travel -- especially by train -- museums, fashion, reading food history and cookbooks, and cooking. Her interests and adventures are influenced by watching films about history and historical dramas, including a train ride she made from Paris to Venice on the refurbished Orient Express. She saved for the trip as a special birthday gift after seeing the film, “Murder on the Orient Express.”

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Ep. 20 - Chosen Family in A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

A League of Their Own, co-created by Abbi Jacobson (who plays Carson Shaw in the Amazon Prime series), and Will Graham, is inspired by the 1992 film directed by Penny Marshall, and the untold stories of Black women baseball players, and Latina and queer women who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) in the 1940s. We talk with author and poet Toni Asante Lightfoot about the character Max Chapman (Chanté Adams), an African American player from Rockford (home of the Rockford Peaches), who is turned away from the AAGPBL tryouts because of her race. With the support of her family including her trans uncle Bertie, best friend Clance, and the African American community, Max must forge her own way to play the game she loves in a segregated world.

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Ep. 17 - MR. SUNSHINE: K-Drama’s Binge-Worthy Epic

The award-winning K-drama MR. SUNSHINE was released in 2018 and became the 6th highest ranking drama in South Korean cable history, and is still trending on Netflix in the US and around the globe. What makes MR. SUNSHINE a binge-worthy epic? Why are audiences outside South Korea connecting with this historical drama of love, revenge, and revolution. K-Drama blogger Kat Turner shares some insights on the MR. SUNSHINE and recent K-Drama phenomenon.

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Ep. 8 - JULIE DASH: Women of the Movement and Other Untold Stories

Filmmaker and award-winning director, Julie Dash directed two episodes in the recent ABC limited series WOMEN OF THE MOVEMENT about Mamie Till Mobley’s attempts to get justice for the brutal murder of her 14-year old son Emmett Till in the Jim Crow South of 1955.

We will talk with Julie Dash about her film and television work in historical drama, including WOMEN OF THE MOVEMENT; the influence of Black women writers and cultural workers in her creative work; and the impact of bringing untold stories from history to the screen, particularly how we believe and remember history.

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