Monday, June 29, 2020
Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973)
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It’s difficult to overestimate the importance of the late Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki bouki (The Hyena’s Journey) and its seminal pla...
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Sunday, June 28, 2020
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (Göran Olsson, 2011)
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For three decades, the film canisters sat undisturbed in a cellar beneath the Swedish National Broadcasting Company. Inside was roll a...
Saturday, June 27, 2020
Sit-In (Robert M. Young, 1960)
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Sit-In (1960) is filmmaker Robert M. Young’ (Nothing But A Man, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez) seminal documentary on how the Student ...
Friday, June 26, 2020
Human Zoos: America's Forgotten History of Scientific Racism (John West, 2018)
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Human Zoos examines the horrifying history of the American effort to dehumanize an entire class of people in the name of science. In t...
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Strong Island (Yance Ford, 2017)
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On April 7, 1992, in Central Islip, a Long Island suburb of New York City, William Ford, Jr., a twenty-four-year-old man, was shot and...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files (David Olusoga, 2019)
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Historian David Olusoga looks at the background to the 2014 Windrush Scandal, whereby hundreds of people from the Caribbean who had li...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Jim Crow of the North (Daniel Bergin, 2019)
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Why does Minnesota suffer from some of the worst racial disparities in the nation? One answer is the spread of racially restrictive rea...
Monday, June 22, 2020
Equality Under the Law: The Lost Generation of Prince Edward County (John Barnes, 1965)
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In 1959, Prince Edward County, Virginia, closed its public schools rather than integrate them. White children went to publicly aided pr...
Sunday, June 21, 2020
16 Shots (Rick Rowley, 2019)
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When Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke shot Laquan McDonald 16 times in the middle of the street, he couldn’t have possibly known ...
Saturday, June 20, 2020
Finally Got the News (Stewart Bird, Rene Lichtman & Peter Gessner, 1970)
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Finally Got the News is a forceful, unique documentary that reveals the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside ...
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