Someone Like Me and One of Ours intimately confront identity and belonging.
Keep ReadingFor those of us who witnessed it live on TV, the image is indelible. 200-metre Olympic champion Tommie Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos stand on the podium, their fists raised in
Keep ReadingThe entrance of Dee’s Tots, the 24-hour daycare captured in Through the Night, is plastered from floor to ceiling with photos of all the children that have walked through its doors. The
Keep ReadingJennifer Holness's Subjects of Desire celebrates Blackness while exploring how the beauty industry shapes images of Black women.
Keep ReadingWhen 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.
Keep ReadingHow rare and wonderful is it to watch a documentary and witness it immediately change the accepted history of a subject? Summer of Soul does just with portrait of 1969 Harlem Cultural
Keep Reading"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
Keep ReadingThe Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show explores the cultural impact of Harry Belafonte’s time on The Tonight Show.
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.
Keep ReadingJohn 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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