As the horror continues and multiplies in Palestine/Gaza we are all trying to arm ourselves with as many historical facts as possible to try to understand the complicated history of the Middle East, specifically Palestinian/Jewish relations.
" Wouldn’t people have understood precisely who he was? The answer is simple: Yes, they understood who he was, and they did not care--until two things happened. First, he fell out of style. And second, the brutality of the man became undeniable."
‘American Symphony’: The singer-musician-composer writes his magnum opus while his wife battles cancer in a moving ode to love, creativity, and the art of survival.
The 'I Am Not Your Negro' director’s adaptation of a 2019 ProPublica investigation effectively connects one family’s story with the larger scourge of legal Black land theft.
Netflix documentary 'Stamped from the Beginning' takes Ibram X Kendi’s best-selling book and explores the question ‘what’s wrong with Black people?’
tracing racism throughout American history.
After supporting screenwriters and actors through their monthslong strikes, film and TV crew workers with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) are launching a reform caucus.
In “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” the desire for home is at once existential and literal, a matter of self and safety, being and belonging. This is, of course, part of the story of being black in the United States.
Roger Ross Williams cinematic tour de force proceeds to tell the story of racism through the colonial period up to today’s Black Lives Matter struggles against police brutality and more.
Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of David Grann’s best-selling Killers of the Flower Moon explores the rot beneath the myth of American exceptionalism.
Nikki Giovanni is one of America’s most acclaimed poets and a well-known voice of the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Lives Matter movements. A powerful writer and trailblazing activist, Giovanni’s words have inspired the masses for decades.
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