Movies

At PAFF: Nate Parker’s ‘American Skin’ plus Angela Davis

March 11, 2021 By Ed Rampell

The undaunted 29th Pan African Film Festival kicked off on the last day of Black History Month and runs through March 14.

‘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...

‘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

‘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.

Famosos elogian a la pionera Cicely Tyson

January 30, 2021 By Associated Press

Cicely Tyson seleccionaba estratégicamente papeles poderosos con la intención de elevar la forma en la que son percibidos los actores negros. Una generación más joven de actrices negras — Viola Davis, Kerry Washington y Zendaya entre...