In Stamped from the Beginning, Roger Ross Williams deconstructs the social construct of racism and the images used to perpetuate it.
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Sam Pollard's documentary The League chronicles the history and heyday of the Negro Baseball League and its impact for Black athletes.
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Sam Pollard and Geeta Gandbhir chronicle the fight to mobilize Black voters in Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power.
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Sidney from director Reginald Hudlin profiles Oscar winning actor and activist Sidney Poitier. The documentary plays TIFF before streaming on AppleTV+.
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Margaret Brown's Descendant revisits the history of the slave ship the Clotide, and the legacy of lives left behind.
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Jamila Wignot's portrait of Black dance maverick Alvin Ailey is a truly moving account of his life, work, and legacy. Ailey is imbued with the presence of a queer icon whose power
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It isn’t just the music that makes Summer of Soul remarkable: it captures the spirit of the Sixties politically and emotionally.
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“It usually started with: ‘you were a slave,’ when I was growing up, and that’s just not the case,” director Maya Annik Bedward tells me. We’re discussing what led the Jamaican French-Canadian
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The timeliness of a poem, painting, novel or film draws not only on its origin and response but also its capability to speak to the present long after the fact. This is
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