10 Classic Black Books That Should Be Made Into Films

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Flyy Girl

by Omar Tyree

Honestly, a film version about this young girl from Philly has been long overdue. And according to Variety, CodeBlack Entertainment, along with Lionsgate, are playing to produce a film version based off of one of the books in the trilogy. However as it reads in Deadline, it sounds like the film will focus more on the sequel to Flyy Girl and not the book that started it all. And it is a shame. I don’t know why urban literature gets left out of the book-to-film discussion as much as it does, but this kind of discrimination has got to stop because we are overlooking some good narratives. And while it might be slightly dated, it still works for me as a period piece to highlight what it was like to be young, Black girl growing up under Ronald Reagan’s urban America. Although Tyree is obviously a man I think he did a pretty decent job capturing certain diversity among young women within urban environments. And I think that lots of young women will see themselves in Tracey, the book’s protagonist, who is all about boys and fast money, and yet still survived it all. She was messy but she was bright. And that is not an unusually existence for many young women, in general.

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