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Jul 14, 2016 · The President and the People: Race in America: Directed by Jeff Winn. With Sabina Ghebremedhin, Jemele Hill, Sunny Hostin, David Muir.
- Jeff Winn
- 2016-07-14
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Race in America. Nina Parker returns to the roundtable with celebs from across the NBC broadcast and cable entertainment networks for an open dialogue on the power of the black vote on both a...
- Nina Parker
- October 24, 2020
- 'Do The Right Thing'
- 'Fruitvale Station'
- 'Moonlight'
- 'Dead Presidents'
- 'In The Heat of The Night'
- 'Get Out'
- '13th'
- 'To Sleep with Anger'
- 'The Hate U Give'
- 'To Kill A Mockingbird'
This is the quintessential movie about police brutality. "It's a hot summer in New York City and these racial tensions are bubbling up and then climax and the conclusion of the movie is so wrenching," Thompson says. "It's terrible for anyone to watch and especially for us to see a Black body abused that way onscreen." Spike Lee's film is also on Bo...
Some films are just too traumatic to watch more than once – if you can even get through them that one time. For Thompson, this is one of them. The Ryan Coogler filmtells the story of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a 22-year-old Black man who was shot to death by police at an Oakland, California, metro station. Thompson calls it a modern-day "Do t...
This Academy Award-winning picture shows the grief and trauma of Black men through an entirely different lens than police brutality while also highlighting the Black LGBTQ community. Oscar watch:Inside the magic of 'Moonlight' "It's about seeing the wholeness of Black people and the wholeness of Black men and how they can surprise you by not being ...
While there are many Vietnam war movies, none focus on the Black veteran experience like Albert and Allen Hughes' "Dead Presidents," Boyd says. " 'Dead Presidents' is about Black soldiers in Vietnam and particularly the struggles they face when they return home, but it's also about what sort of world they enter when they come back home," Boyd says.
This film came at the height of Sidney Poitier's career, several years after he became the first Black star to win best actor at the Oscars (for "Lilies of the Field"). "There's a moment in the film when one of the racist Southerners slaps him and he quickly slaps him back. I call it the 'slap heard 'round the world,' " Boyd says. "So instead of st...
Jordan Peele's directorial debutturns white supremacy into a horror flick. " 'Get Out' is the personification of that meme like 'I wish people loved Black people as much as they love Black culture,' like that's literally what the movie is about," Thompson says. "That these white people would pay to become Black and to take on these attributes of bl...
Ava DuVernay's documentaryexplains the prison industrial complex and is timely as it spans from the 1800s through to Donald Trump's presidential campaign. It explores why this is an issue in our society, discusses private prisons and the politics behind that, Boyd says.
"It's really a film about a Black family in Los Angeles and one of their old friends from down South shows up unexpected and disrupts their life," Boyd says. "You never see a Black family represented in such a humanistic way. It's funny, it's interesting, it's just a unique film in that it represents just a regular Black family." The film stars Dan...
"The Hate U Give" is based on Angie Thomas’ 2017 young-adult novel and takes on themes of Black Lives Matter, police brutality and Black identity and puts them in the thought-provoking story of a Black girl growing up "in a Black inner-city community and going to a white private school across town," Hunt says. "It's important especially if you have...
This classic tale, which won three Academy Awards, is a good place to start. "To Kill a Mockingbird" is adapted from Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name and follows the story of Atticus Finch, a white lawyer (Gregory Peck) who represents a Black man (Tom Robinson) accused of raping a white woman. More:Books about race flying ...
May 20, 2024 · On the Democratic side, President Joe Biden has cruised past his challengers, including Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., who withdrew from the race, and self-help guru Marianne Williamson, who ...
Feb 2, 2024 · When Ava DuVernay's movie, "Origin," premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year, it received a nine-minute standing ovation. The movie, written and directed by Ava DuVernay, is an adaptation ...
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Jun 5, 2020 · These 12 television shows dive into racial injustice against black people and people of color, police brutality, systems of poverty, and the prison system.
Oct 20, 2019 · Damon Lindelof, who created the nine-episode series, was determined to explore the long history of — and current furor over — racial tensions in America in “Watchmen,” a direction he ...
