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How Raoul Peck Became a Cinematic Griot

Lovia Gyarkye Hammer & Hope
The Haitian filmmaker has spent 40 years using the archives to combat historical erasure and to highlight the people’s version of the past.

Ryan Coogler’s Road to “Sinners”

Jelani Cobb The New Yorker
The film represents a departure for the “Black Panther” director, and a creative risk; it grapples with ideas about music, race, family, religion—and vampires.

In the Shadow of King Coal

Sarah Jones Dissent Magazine
While the coal industry is in terminal decline, it still shapes the culture of central Appalachia.
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