The activist on his new film, Chapter and Verse.
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8 Films In BAM’s Black Women Festival That We’re Excited to See—And Why They Matter – Okay Africa
The only thing I love more than black women starring in movies, is movies made by black women.
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Claiming the Future of Black TV – The Atlantic
After a banner year for African Americans on television in 2016, can the industry normalize this success?
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Black-ish’s ‘Lemons’ Is Art for the Age of Trump – The Atlantic
The latest episode of the ABC sitcom expresses anger at the election’s outcome. It also insists on empathy.
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Film legend and pioneer, Spencer Williams Jr. – New York Amsterdam News
Williams’ career was unknown to millions of viewers; they had no idea how significant he was in the early years of movies in America.
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‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie?
A.O. Scott | The New York Times>\ [perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=”16″]To describe “Moonlight,” Barry Jenkins’s second feature, as a movie about growing up poor, black and gay would be accurate enough.[/perfectpullquote]It would also not be wrong to call it a movie about drug abuse, mass incarceration and school violence. But those classifications […]
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Do the right thing – how black cinema rose again
The late 80s and 90s heralded a breakthrough led by Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and John Singleton’s Boyz N the Hood. At first, Hollywood embraced this wave of talent, then it ignored it. Now, in the wake of #OscarsSoWhite, black films matter once more.
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American Honey Is a New Indie Classic
Andrea Arnold’s new film follows a crew of young drifters through the recession-struck heartland.
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“I Am Not Your Negro” film based on James Baldwin book
One of the most artistic and daring political statements at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), was the world premiere of Haitian-born Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, based on James Baldwin’s unfinished book Remember This House.
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Storytelling haze shrouds the musical ‘Blackberry Daze’
[two_fifth padding=”0 35px 0 10px”]BY Nelson Pressley | PUB The Washington Post Ruth P. Watson’s 2012 novel, “Blackberry Days of Summer,” is now a bluesy new musical called “Blackberry Daze,” and that change of spelling in the title foreshadows more bafflement and confusion than was probably intended.[/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”]Watson’s semi-mystery, with struggles and triumphs evoking […]
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