Stokely Carmichael. Assata Shakur. Angela Davis. Bobby Seale. Huey P. Newton. For my generation, if you grew up around a certain dynamic those are all names you knew and heard about often, without living through the Experience. “The Black Power Mixtape” is a well-edited documentary that casts an eye on what those times were like […]
This past weekend I went to the USC Homecoming game with a couple of the guys from school, and for a minute I couldn’t help but daydream about these days. Part of getting older is remembering how idealistic you were and how real life changes your perspective on things. I tell that anecdote […]
The film that literally starts the discussion of modern black filmmaking, Sweet Sweetback on its most basic level is the story of one brotha on the run from the police. If you know anything about black folks, our history, and our paranoia, you can easily insert the statement/joke, “Well, that’s a movie!” and be done […]
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