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Carla Gutierrez Captures Frida in Animated Living Color
With a wicked sense of humor, it's not lost that her career had a few setbacks due to men being king and ruling the world. Kahlo's words have never rung…
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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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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a Cinematic Generational Journey of Sound
Restrained dialogue coupled with subtle and powerful performances from Sheila Atim, Moses Ingram and Zainab Jah, Jackson assists in employing the power of touch to communicate what evades spoken language.…
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Invisible Beauty Bethann Hardison Revolutionized Fashion
Invisible Beauty is a tribute to an Black woman who made such seismic shifts that we should never forget her name or her contributions to equality in the fashion industry…
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Teyana Taylor Shines as Impoverished Mom in A Thousand and One
A Thousand And One is an elegant ode to the terribly beautiful power of family as an anchor in an ever-changing world, making us into who we are in ways…
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Algee Smith and Sierra Capri Scorch in Young. Wild. Free.
What Banks mostly succeeds in is crafting a film that doesn't waste time getting to the heart of the matter. From the first frame to the last, the suspenseful nature…
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The Stroll Breaks Down Transgressions of Trans Life on the Streets of NYC
For those unfamiliar with gentrification, sex workers or how it feels to be targeted by law enforcement simply based on what one looks like they may become possibly become engaged…
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Sundance 23: Jonathan Majors in Magnificent in Magazine Dreams
Magazine Dreams is a provocative, dark disturbing film that pulls no punches in portraying the most physically and emotionally painful moments of mental illness in it most fragile state.
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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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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…
