"It felt like I was watching freedom on the stage—these beautiful diverse bodies in motion. It felt like an opening, like I was leaning in the whole evening and it just stayed
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Keep Reading"Everything exists in a mixture between Quechua mythology and reality. It’s reality in the sense that we have the plaza, the prison, the mountains – everything we have in Bolivia – but
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Keep ReadingOn November 25, 2020, POV mailed its latest issue, #113 (Fall/Winter 2020) to subscribers. This issue featured the cover story on the documentary Inconvenient Indian and its director, Michelle Latimer. This article
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Keep ReadingA documentary available on YouTube entitled The Mangrove Nine, directed by notable radical Franco Rosso and scripted by the first major Black publisher John LaRose, makes fascinating viewing after seeing McQueen’s film.
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