Racism
Cédric Kahn’s conventional but fiery true-life courtroom drama hones in on French racism and anti-semitism.
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The breadth and intimacy of “Origin”‘s vision — the personal becomes the historical — is stunning, a searing portrait of collective trauma and the dark ideas that propel it.
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Nobody reading about Rebecca “Beka” Ntsanwisi, aka “Mama Beka,” can feel anything but good. This extraordinary South African woman has built a network of soccer teams made up of grandmothers throughout her country.
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In these short films James Baldwin does not come off as a relaxed person, someone at ease with himself or quite comfortable in the world. You can feel the acute pain as he speaks.
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At a time when the nation is taking stock of the failures of our history of urban policing and looking for some new approaches, the lessons of Hold Your Fire are needed more urgently than ever.
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We need to realize how important class is in order to understand how inequality can rise as Confederate monuments fall.
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“Making Monsters is a wake-up call. We need to seriously address the phenomenon of dehumanization if we are to have any hope of constraining it when things get really difficult.”
Read MoreChi-Raq is a work of agitprop—preachy, strident, sentimental, even sacramental.
Read More“Theater producers do not want to make their audience members uncomfortable and talking about race makes folks uncomfortable.”
Read MoreIn appropriate, a talented young playwright turns mischievous literary homage into a work of exhilarating entertainment.
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