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NANNY — Nikyatu Jusu and Anna Diop Interview

December 30, 2022 By Leave a Comment

NANNY —  Nikyatu Jusu and Anna Diop Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. Led by a stunning performance by Anna Diop in the title role of Aisha, an undocumented immigrant working to bring her young son over from Senegal, NANNY is a powerful yet subtle film that uses horror as a way of addressing so much more, in this case, the… Read More »

Tagged With: accent, angry black woman syndrome, injustice, magic, mythology, Nietzsche, patriarchy, racism, rage, reclaiming power, Sartre, Sundance

LOUDMOUTH — Josh Alexander Interview

December 30, 2022 By Leave a Comment

LOUDMOUTH — Josh Alexander Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. The first thing to know about Josh Alexander’s documentary on the Rev. Al Sharpton is that it was the Rev himself who picked the title. That came up early on in my conversation with Alexander on December 1, 2022. One thing I appreciated in Alexander’s insightful and incisive… Read More »

Tagged With: Al Sharpton, civil rights, george floyd, Graham Willoughby, Howard Beach, Interrotron, john legend, loudmouth, media eco-system, Michael Griffith, police brutality, race, racism, systemic injustice, systemic racism, Tawana Brawley, violence

GOD’S COUNTRY — Julian Higgins Interview

September 16, 2022 By Leave a Comment

GOD’S COUNTRY — Julian Higgins Interview

Click here to listen to the interview. One of the most unsettling moments in Julian Higgins’ GOD’S COUNTRY is a sequence in which the conflict that escalates between college professor Sandra Guidry and some local hunters comes to a head. They had taken offence when refused the right to park on her land, and after… Read More »

Tagged With: anger, Angry black woman, Brett Kavanagh hearings, classism, hunters, misogyny, Montana, racism, white male privilege

I’M CHARLIE WALKER — Patrick Gilles Interview

June 10, 2022 By Leave a Comment

I’M CHARLIE WALKER — Patrick Gilles Interview

  Click here to listen to the interview. I’ve lived in San Francisco for many, many years, and yet I’d never heard the story of Charlie Walker, an African-American man with a dream and a real gift for playing the system against itself. I was delighted to learn about that part of my city’s history… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, book to screen, Boots Riley, Charlie Walker, Dylan Bake, Mike Colter, oil company, oil spill, racism, Safiya Fredricks, San Francisco, trucking, Willie Brown

EMERGENCY

May 19, 2022 By Leave a Comment

EMERGENCY

EMERGENCY starts with Sean (RJ Cyler) and Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins) attending a class called Blasphemy and Taboos, taught by a perky British woman who, after reminding her students that their syllabus contained a trigger warning about this class, confronts them with the n-word. Not just projecting it onto the classroom screen in huge letters,… Read More »

Tagged With: bacterial cultures, broken tail light, classism, college, moral center, racism, sexism, spring break, trigger word, white privilege

CANDYMAN

August 30, 2021 By Leave a Comment

CANDYMAN

CANDYMAN wants to do more than creep you out with mere gore. To that end, this sequel to the original does more than ignore the three subsequent films in that previous franchise, though it does, like those other films, drench the screen in blood from time to time. Here, though, the true horror that it… Read More »

Tagged With: bees, broken communities, Cabrini Green, Chicago, gentrification, microagressions, oppession, police brutality, racism, sequel

RISE AGAIN: TULSA AND THE RED SUMMER

June 18, 2021 By Leave a Comment

RISE AGAIN: TULSA AND THE RED SUMMER

Anticipating the centennial of the Tulsa race riots and massacre in 1921, Dawn Porter wanted to do more that remember that criminally ignored chapter in American history. The resulting documentary, RISE AGAIN: TULSA AND THE RED SUMMER, recounts a part of our history that had, similarly, been ignored by all but the survivors, and their… Read More »

Tagged With: DeNeen Brown, Elaine Massacre, lynching, racism, Red Summer, Tulsa Race Riot and Massacre

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH

February 10, 2021 By Leave a Comment

JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH

The religious overtones of JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH come towards the end of this searing examination of racial politics during the 1960s. And when they arrive, in a sequence that is most assuredly a shout-out to the Last Supper, director/co-writer Shaka King has earned the right, and then some, to invoke the metaphor. The… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Black Panthers, Chicago, Civil Rights Movement, class struggle, FBI, government surveillance, racism

ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI…

December 31, 2020 By Leave a Comment

ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI…

The story of ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI was inspired by actual events, which leaves plenty of room for speculation about what Malcolm X, Cassius Clay (shortly to become Muhammad Ali), James Brown, and Sam Cooke talked about in that motel room on February 25, 1964. If it was less the dialectic presented here, what each… Read More »

Tagged With: civil right, economic freedom, Nation of Islam, racial equality, racism

ANTEBELLUM

December 16, 2020 By Leave a Comment

ANTEBELLUM

Of the many neat twists in ANTEBELLUM, the most disturbing of all is the one that concerns the state of race relations in the modern day, and how slavery still informs it. By contrasting the subtle, and not so subtle, micro-aggressions forced upon people of color in the present with the brutality of slavery as… Read More »

Tagged With: microaggression, patriarchy, racism, slavery, torture

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