Get Out (2017)
When Rose takes black boyfriend Chris to meet her white parents, she tells him not to worry, but he soon is in more danger than if he’d gone to a KKK rally.
Inside Out 2 (2024)
It has been about 9 years since Pixar’s innovative Inside Out helped children and their familis understand the emotions that dwelt within them, sometimes controling their reactions to the external world. Like many fans of that film, I wondered if a sequel could live up to high quality of the original, and am glad to …
Brother Outsider the Life of Bayard Rustin (2003)
“The forgotten” man’s story who organized the March on Washington & taught MLK nonviolence is told in photos, archival footage & interviews.
Unapologetic (2021)
Two young Black activist women take on the Mayor & the Chicago Police Dept.’s attempt to cover up the killings of unarmed Blacks.
The Outfit (2022)
A mild mannered taciturn ex-London cutter proves smarter than the mob boss who uses his Chicago tailored suit shop as a drop-off for money & messages.
Son of the South (2020)
Writer-director Barry Alexander Brown’s film is based on Bob Zellner’s well-received 2008 autobiography The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement. The author’s move from sympathetic but do-nothing white moderate to zealous C-R activist is a good illustration of Dr. King’s criticism in his famous prison letter. At first …
3 Books on Racism and a YouTube Video
I have just finished reading 2 books that expose the poison of racism, one very graphically, and the other in the lofty prose of the essay (but just as forcefully)–COMING OF AGE IN MISSISSIPPI and LONG TIME COMING: Reckoning with Race in America. Both …
The Fountain of Youth (1958)
This short award-winning TV film about a jilted scientist & the lovers who betrayed him is Welles’ only comedy to be filmed.
Suffragette (2015)
The story of England’s Suffragette Movement is told through the eyes of an ordinary woman who pays a heavy price for joining up, due to her hostile husband.
John Lewis: Get in the Way (2020)
The story of CR leader turned US Congressman John lewis, from his sharecropping days through Sit-ins & Freedom Rides to his beating at Selma & years as the “Conscience of Congress.”