Brother to Brother

Brother to Brother is a film written and directed by Rodney Evans and released in 2004. The film debuted at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival before playing the gay and lesbian film festival circuit, with a limited theatrical release in late 2004. Art student Perry (Anthony Mackie) befriends an elderly homeless man named Bruce Nugent (Roger Robinson), who turns out to have been an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Through recalling his friendships with other important Harlem Renaissance figures Langston Hughes (Daniel Sunjata), Aaron Douglas, Wallace Thurman and Zora Neale Hurston, Bruce chronicles some of the challenges he faced as a young, black, gay writer in the 1920s. Perry discovers that the challenges of homophobia and racism he faces in the early 21st century closely parallel Bruce's.





Smoke, Lilies & Jade
Bruce Nugent

it was almost as though it had journeyed to meet him...think...the dulcet clear tone of a blue like night...if colors could be heard he could paint most wondrous tunes...symphonious...but soon the moon would rise and then he would clothe the silver moon in blue smoke garments...truly smoke was like imagination........