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As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial Review – When Art’s a Crime

by Pat Mullen
January 24, 2024
Reviews/Sundance

As We Speak; Rap Music on Trial follows rapper Kemba as he learns how rap lyrics become evidence in criminal cases against against.

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Black Barbie Review: Confronting Racism One Doll at a Time

by Pat Mullen
October 6, 2023
Reviews

he story of the beloved Mattel doll and its tenuous history of race relations is explored with the story of Black Barbie.

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Silver Dollar Road Review: A Land Worth Fighting For

by Courtney Small
September 13, 2023October 13, 2023
Reviews/TIFF

Silver Dollar Road follows North Carolina family's multi-year legal battle to save the land that's been in the family for generations.

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Stamped from the Beginning Review: Racism, Deconstructed

by Pat Mullen
September 9, 2023
Reviews/TIFF

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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Milisuthando Review: Radical Decolonial Cinema

by Pat Mullen
January 28, 2023October 1, 2025
Reviews/Sundance

Milisuthando is an engrossing essay film that probes South African apartheid, Blackness, and identity through a personal collage of archives and memories.

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Loudmouth Review: Straight from the Reverend’s Mouth

by Pat Mullen
December 9, 2022
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Loudmouth smartly examines the Black Lives Matter movement through a look back at Reverend Al Sharpton's outspokenness while campaigning for the rights of Black Americans.

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Bad Axe Review: Reframing the American Dream

by Courtney Small
November 8, 2022
Festivals/Reviews

David Siev documents his family's experience with anti-Asian racism in their small Michigan town of Bad Axe during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Black Ice Review: How ‘Canada’s Game’ Dropped the Puck

by Courtney Small
September 12, 2022
Reviews/TIFF

In Black Ice, Hubert Davis deconstructs systemic racism in hockey and highlights the Black athletes have persevered in perceived 'white spaces'.

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Black Ice Confronts Racism in Hockey

by Perry King
September 8, 2022February 6, 2023
Features/TIFF

Black Ice considers the racist history of "Canada's Game" and inclusion efforts.

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White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch Review – Fast Fashion

by Pat Mullen
April 14, 2022June 6, 2023
Reviews

In White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abecrombie & Fitch, Alison Klayman sees in the fashion empire a microcosm of America and its exclusionary practices.

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