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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

HARRIET

October 28, 2019 By Leave a Comment

HARRIET

HARRIET achieves the proper, and richly deserved, tone of reverence for its subject, Harriet Tubman. That is, alas, its greatest failing. The astonishing life of one of the most courageous Americans who has ever lived is told in a series of set pieces, vignettes with all drama sapped from them as they take on the… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, based on a true story, Philadelpha, racism, slavery, underground railway

THE LEGEND OF TARZAN

July 3, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE LEGEND OF TARZAN

Credit where it’s due.  THE LEGEND OF TARZAN doesn’t get everything wrong. For one, It has the virtue of addressing why a perfectly capable, perfectly intelligent black man with a Ph.D., George Washington Harris (Samuel L. Jackson as an actual historical character) needs a white man, that would be Lord Greystoke aka Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård)… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, Africa, Belgian Congo, book to screen, Congo, diamonds, diplomatic mission, hippopotamus, King Leopold, ostriches, slavery, Tarzan

Chiwetel Ejiofor Experiences 12 YEARS A SLAVE

September 30, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Chiwetel Ejiofor Experiences 12 YEARS A SLAVE

12 YEARS A SLAVE is based on the shocking true story of Solomon Northup, a musician and free man of color with a wife and two children who lived in New York in the first half of the 19th century. He was sold into slavery, where he languished for over a decade, and, against all… Read More »

Tagged With: ante-bellum south, based on a true story, book to screen, slavery, Solomon Northup

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