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Films from Tantura to Descendant challenge the powerful. But it’s still up to us to witness the truth. The past can’t be changed. But if we won’t tell the truth about it, we can’t learn from it. We can’t even understand ourselves.

African American food culture is one of many aspects of African American identity that represents an unbroken line from Africa to present-day America.

The Afterparty is just one of several new comedies about stressed-out millennials finding themselves trapped in a murder mystery. So what is it about this generation that makes them all want to star in an Agatha Christie story?

Mississippi poet Philip Kolin depicts the crushing of the Black community in Tulsa, OK one century ago.

The stories in Standing Up are linked thematically and appear in chronological order, beginning with 1970. For those of us who have similarly spent time as organizers, the book feels like an anthropological field trip into the past.

It is tempting to harness “Civilization and Its Discontents” as a guide to our contemporary political morass, but doing so may obscure its most valuable message.

Over this next century, China wants to use the movies to rebrand itself, and it has learned how to do so from the best.

Food was a weapon of control by slaveholders, most often used as a mechanism for domination and exploitation. The story of African American food has also been a story about self-determination and ownership.

Season 4 part 1 of the Netflix series "Ozark" is a microcosm for the bigger message of struggle between classes under capitalism

The anniversary of the election insurrection evokes memories of anger and simplicity; are we more prepared?