The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show explores the cultural impact of Harry Belafonte’s time on The Tonight Show.
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A 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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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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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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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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Keep ReadingJohn Lewis: Good Trouble (USA, 97 min.) Dir. Dawn Porter “I feel luck and blessed that I am serving in our country,” says Congressman John Lewis in Good Trouble. “But there are forces
Keep ReadingElla Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things (USA, 89 min.) Dir. Leslie Woodhead Ella Fitzgerald’s soothing ditties never fail to raise one’s spirits. Her sturdy voice and upbeat tunes enliven Ella Fitzgerald: Just
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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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Director Michèle Stephenson discusses her winner of Hot Docs’ Special Jury Prize for Canadian features, Stateless, a compelling study of institutionalized racism past and present in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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