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Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project is Revelatory and Necessary
What I loved most is her verbal homage to the Black woman and how we can deal with and endure almost anything thrown own way - it's part of our…
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Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields Examines a Misjudged and Misguided Life
Honest and incisive, Pretty Baby critiques a toxic culture that perpetuates misogyny and is complicit in the sexualization and objectification of young girls, while sharing how Brooke Shields discovered and…
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Little Richard: I Am Everything Digs Deep into the Lineage of a Legend
This rock 'n' roll legend's complex journey as a conflicted revolutionary careening between being a religious zealot, unapologetically embracing his sexuality, coupled with navigating the extreme tensions of race reminds…
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Reginald Hudlin and Oprah’s Sidney is Simply Magnificent
Speaking often throughout the doc about his father showing him what the true the measure of a man is permeates my spirit and consciousness. For me, the true measure of…
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Sacha Jenkins Reveals Louis Armstrong Was More Than a Grin
Louis Armstrong: Black and Blues is not only the later half of this impactful doc's title, but places Armstrong’s voice in our ear singing, talking, joking, being beyond frustrated in…
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Nothing Compares to Sinéad O’Connor
What intrigued me was the fact that not only was she a champion of women of women's rights, the artist was very outspoken about race schisms of Black people in…
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La Guerra Civil Is Honest and Heartfelt Tribute to Boxing Legends
Director Eva Longoria Bastón’s high-energy documentary debut exudes authenticity and heart as it digs deep into the cultural significance of one of the biggest sports moments of the 1990s. Much…
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W. Kamau Bell Asks Do We Need to Talk About Cosby…Hell Yeah!
What you don't know is that at some point, he writes a children's book in which 'spanish fly' is mentioned more than 25 times. His album, 'Bill Cosby Talks to…
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Amy Poehler’s Lucy and Desi is Emotionally Charged Loving Tribute
Did you ever notice there was NEVER major any attention given to the fact this was an interracial couple on American television during a time where it wasn't accepted by…
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Hugh Jackman Deliciously Diabolical in Bad Education
Inspired by a true story, Bad Education is a smartly assembled, hilariously dark, at times squirm-in-your-seat chronicle of the most fascinating financial crime in the history of the US school…
