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Descendant Review: Worthy Story, Sunken Ship

by Jason Gorber
January 26, 2022
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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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Ailey is a moving story of the Black dance pioneer

by Marc Glassman
August 6, 2021August 11, 2021
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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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Nina Simone Summer of Soul

Summer of Soul Review #2: Believe the Buzz

by Marc Glassman
July 5, 2021March 24, 2022
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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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Why We Fight Director Maya Annik Bedward on the Power of Returning to Your Roots

by Rachel Ho
June 21, 2021August 7, 2021
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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 Decadence and Resurgence of African Art

by Maaisha Osman
June 2, 2021August 7, 2021
Features

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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Shared Legacies Review: United in Power

by Courtney Small
October 23, 2020August 28, 2021
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Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance (USA, 97 Min.) Dir. Shari Rogers In these divisive times, when political rhetoric has led to a rise in anti-Semitism and hate crimes, director

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John Ware Reclaimed Brings the Past to Light

by Courtney Small
October 1, 2020August 16, 2021
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John Ware Reclaimed is an engaging and insightful film that brings Ware’s legacy to the forefront—where it should have been in the first place.

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TIFF 2020: 40 Years a Prisoner Review

by Pat Mullen
September 17, 2020August 9, 2021
Reviews/TIFF

Tommy Oliver's incendiary and deeply personal 40 Years a Prisoner chronicles systemic racism, the revolutionary group MOVE, and a family’s search for justice.

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TIFF 2020: MLK/FBI Review

by Marc Glassman
September 16, 2020August 9, 2021
Reviews/TIFF

King and Hoover are long gone now. So are the Sixties. But Pollard’s lucidly intelligent MLK/FBI shows what happened then: a fatal situation in which a Black man confronted the white establishment.

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‘White Riot’: Dismantling Racism and Bigotry One Concert at a Time

by Courtney Small
July 14, 2020August 28, 2021
Reviews

White Riot (UK, 80 mins.) Dir. Rubika Shah Eric Clapton is universally renowned as one of the world’s greatest blues guitarists. What often gets lost in the lore of the iconic musician is that

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