Detroit feels exhaustive and less like a serious hunt for racial justice, but a bloody, cartoonish take on Algiers.
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Immaturity & Dating: Jay Z’s 4:44 and John Singleton’s “Baby Boy”
Why is it more important to so many girls for someone else to commit to us than it is for us to commit to ourselves?
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Maori Karmael Holmes
Filmmaker, curator, and founder of the BlackStar Film Festival, Maori Karmael Holmes, has created an intersectional, feminist space for filmmakers of color to exist, converse and screen their creative output every year in Philadelphia.
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Dave Chappelle and Performing Ignorance
There is money to be had by performing ignorance and by making others who are committed to ignorance feel better about their choices.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers: “Get Out” and the Everyday Horror Story for Blacks
Hollywood has been producing black horror films for awhile now. The 80s and 90s were replete with films with a horror bent.
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Fences: A Memoriam for Our Brother and Master Playwright August Wilson
The film Fences is a remembering, an appreciation of the oral storytelling tradition.
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To Serve Celebrity: Lee Daniels and a Possible “Paris Is Burning” Remake
The idea of Lee Daniels remaking Paris is Burning disturbs me, but it does not shock me.
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Black Boys Are ‘Blonde’ in the ‘Moonlight’
BLONDE and MOONLIGHT arrived to help Black boys like me reckon with the holiness of heartbreak.
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Under the Cherry Moon: A Meditation On Black Male Intimacy and ‘Moonlight’
Moonlight is not only about the taboo sexual relationships that we deny black men in our community, but about the intimate relationships and vulnerability we deny them, too.
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