Chauncey K. Robinson

Chauncey K. Robinson is an award winning journalist and film critic. Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, she has a strong love for storytelling and history. She believes narrative greatly influences the way we see the world, which is why she's all about dissecting and analyzing stories and culture to help inform and empower the people.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Chauncey K. Robinson

Culture

‘Gehenna’: Horror film uses the supernatural to show terrors of colonialism and war
April 25, 2018 By Chauncey K. Robinson
Set in Saipan, the new horror flick "Gehenna" turns the Hollywood trope of "magical natives" on its head.
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Culture

L.A. Times Food Bowl: Beyond elitist culinary excursions
April 20, 2018 By Chauncey K. Robinson
“No one needs another food event that’s just concentrated on ‘fancy’ stuff," says L.A. Times food editor Amy Scattergood. This year's L.A. Food Bowl promises to be anything but.
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Culture

‘Ghost Stories’: Movie asks us to dig deeper into fear and ourselves
April 19, 2018 By Chauncey K. Robinson
Standout performances from Freeman and Nyman drive key points in the movie, while a delightfully morbid twist at the end makes the film resonate and entertain.
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News

‘The Souls of Poor Folk’: Saving the soul of U.S. democracy
April 13, 2018 By Chauncey K. Robinson
The report is not intended to remain on the shelf as a passive record of injustices. Rather, it is a tool for combating damning myths about poverty and organizing struggle.
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Politics

MLK’s children: U.S. needs values revolution, not a sanitized idol
April 6, 2018 By Chauncey K. Robinson
"Quite frankly, I would say there were a number of reasons my father was killed. He was talking about a radical redistribution of wealth,” Martin Luther King III said.
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Politics

Poor People’s Campaign preserves King legacy; targets racism, poverty, and militarism
April 3, 2018 By Chauncey K. Robinson
Announcing the new report, "Souls of Poor Folk," Rev. William Barber says America should not have to wait for a 50th anniversary to talk about race and poverty.
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U.S.

Taming MLK’s radical legacy in the fight against white supremacy
April 3, 2018 By Chauncey K. Robinson
To win the iconic status that King deserved, he had to be domesticated. The memory of King railing against economic injustice and denouncing the Vietnam War faded into an unthreatening idealism.
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Culture

Being a Black entertainment creator in the era of ‘Black Panther’
March 30, 2018 By Chauncey K. Robinson
Such a topic was grappled with at a recent panel at the annual WonderCon convention. The panel, “Blacks in Entertainment: Designing for the Culture” discussed the topic of “what next” for Black workers in the industry,...
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