Culture

‘Judas and the Black Messiah,’ the story of revolutionary Black Panther Fred Hampton
February 22, 2021 By Brian W. Major
The film Judas and the Black Messiah, directed by Shaka King, with a screenplay by Shaka King and Will Berson, shows how many in the late 1960s and ’70s in the U.S., and around the world...
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‘This is the Way We Rise’: Hawaiian poetry in motion
February 19, 2021 By Ed Rampell
A poetic short about Polynesian slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio that recently screened as part of the Sundance Film Festival
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‘41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers’
February 19, 2021 By Ed Rampell
41st & Central zooms in on what the Panthers were probably most widely known for: Audacious, fearless militancy.
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‘The Mandalorian’ season two: Not cancel but carnivore culture
February 18, 2021 By Dennis Broe
One of the surprise hits of the contemporary streaming era is The Mandalorian, the first original series on Disney+. A surprise not because it was a hit—any Star Wars spinoff is guaranteed to have a wide...
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‘Faith in the Masses’: Communist Party history gives something to believe in
February 17, 2021 By Michael Berkowitz
This book of essays celebrating the CPUSA's 100 years is heartfelt, reverent at times, hyper-romantic at others, and decidedly not uncritical.
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