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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/death-dissonance/"></div><p>“Black women are the mules of the world,” a friend once said to me in an argument, paraphrasing Zora Neale Hurston.</p>
<p>When I asked her to explain, she clarified that black women were the single most victimized and assaulted group in the world. This was a moral, indisputable fact. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/death-dissonance/#more-5387" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Death of Dissonance

<strong>Leon Hendrix is an award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker, and teacher&nbsp;living in Los Angeles. He’s a Columbia University alum and has held fellowships with Fox, Universal, The Academy of TV Arts and Sciences, and Film Independent. Leon is currently working on his feature film directing debut based on an original script.</strong>

Leon Hendrix

“Creating the Historiography”: An Interview with Curator-Filmmaker Shola Lynch

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Leon Hendrix is an award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker, and teacher&nbsp;living in Los Angeles. He’s a Columbia University alum and has held fellowships with Fox, Universal, The Academy of TV Arts and Sciences, and Film Independent. Leon is currently working on his feature film directing debut based on an original script.