Naomi Osaka serves a mean forehand. The public attention to the tennis player’s success, however, has been sharply backhanded. The Netflix mini-series Naomi Osaka, directed by Garrett Bradley (Time) offers a window
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Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America sees the ACLU's Jeffrey Robinson deliver a compelling exploration of the nation's past and future.
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Reviews for the Oscar-shortlisted short docs A Love Song for Latasha, Speed Cubers, Call Center Blues, and Do Not Split.
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When so many media images favour images of Black death and trauma, films like Becoming and Hale County, This Morning, This Evening illustrate the complexities of portraying Black lives onscreen.
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Ashley O’Shay’s Unapologetic is an inspiring ode to Black women activists. Screening at the TIFF Next Wave Festival, it's sure to motivate a new generation of voices to join the fight.
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"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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Often podcasting networks would relegate racialized stories to their race podcast, simultaneously profiting off of appearing “woke” while limiting the scope of stories that could be told and who would hear them.
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Spike Lee's American Utopia is a concert film of and for the moment with its documentation of David Byrne's exhilarating live, shoe-free performance.
Keep ReadingIn this time of turbulence, with cries of “defund the police” echoing throughout North America while the coronavirus rages, surely we need comedy. That’s one thing television has always done well, starting with I Love
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Criterion Channel's collections of films about Black experiences have a number of docs and hybrids worth exploring, including Symbiopsychtaxiplasm and Urban Rashomon.
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