Movies
‘This is the Way We Rise’: Hawaiian poetry in motion
February 19, 2021A 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, 202141st & Central zooms in on what the Panthers were probably most widely known for: Audacious, fearless militancy.
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Famosos elogian a la pionera Cicely Tyson
January 30, 2021Cicely 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...
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Two Women: ‘The Assistant’ and ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’
December 23, 2020Seventeen-year-old Autumn is pregnant. When she goes to a crisis pregnancy center, she is shown an anti-abortion video and steered toward having the baby. With no resources and desperate to keep her plight secret from her...
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‘Donbass’: The ‘People’s Republic of Donetsk’ and more in the Wild East
November 23, 2020Press notes and critics observe that Donbass contains commentary on disinformation, propaganda and has an Orwellian outlook regarding our “post-truth” age of “alternative facts.”
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