Keep Questioning. Keep Protesting. Keep Voting: ‘When They Call You a Terrorist’
The Black Lives Matter movement has disrupted an undeserved comfort and acceptance of an unjust society. Rightfully so.
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Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Is a Provocative, Entertaining Mess
The new Spike Lee Joint is irreverent and challenging, but it fails to rival contemporary social powerhouses like Sorry to Bother You and Blindspotting.
Act It Out: Interview with Boots Riley of ‘Sorry to Bother You’
Kill the clichés. Rebel artfully. Writer-director-musician Boots Riley talks with Cynthia Fuchs about empowering the power of Art.
Civil Rights Document, ‘A More Beautiful and Terrible History’, Is Revelatory, Sobering and Relevant
Theoharis's work is deeply (and sadly) relevant to our current condition. Many of the same issues Theoharis decries -- media inattention, liberal passivity on racial justice issues, government harassment of activists -- are still in play.
The Rationality of Violence: The Kerner Commission and the Riots of 1967
Separate and Unequal provides a riveting account of a crucial moment in US history. It offers a penetrating insight into the manner in which good intentions and just causes necessarily confront the mechanisms of governmental bureaucracy.
‘Sorry to Bother You’ Is As Eye-Opening As It Is Bizarre
Boots Riley announces himself a filmmaker to watch with an explosive racial satire that's as unforgettable as they come.
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“Pounding Humility into You Permanently”: On Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain was loved not for his wit or charming temerity, but for confronting us with our own alienation and cultural isolation.
Becoming Douglas Fairbanks: ‘The Half-Breed’
Throughout his career, Fairbanks scrubbed his scripts of racist elements. The Half-Breed is a rare example when racism is foregrounded as a theme.
‘Bring the War Home’ Digs into the Trenches of the White Power Movement in America
Historian Kathleen Belew painstakingly details the influence of the Vietnam wartime experience on the evolution of white power ideology.
Roseanne Barr: A Curdled Avatar of White Resentment
Anybody surprised by the conspiratorial sitcom star's latest rant hasn't been paying attention to what Trump Nation has been trying to tell us.
Two Recent Novels Offer Differing Insights into the Sri Lankan Refugee Experience
Powerful novels The Boat People and Brixton Beach, both tackling the Sri Lankan refugee experience but from profoundly different angles, are eminently enjoyable reads but they're more than that: they're important reads.
Historian Martin Duberman Puts Us to Task with ‘Has the Gay Movement Failed?’
Has the "gay movement" failed? Not yet, suggests this historian's survey. But it urgently needs to reinvent itself.