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Writer/director Minhai Baig’s elegaic story of an imaginative boy facing the end of a way of life is deeply moving. It makes me believe all the more that the best of films are being made by indepedant filmmakers. This is a must see film. The setting is the vast Cabrini-Green project that at its height …
There is a wonderful limited (8 parts) series telling the parallel stories of Dr. MLK and Malcolm X scheduled to appear on the National Geographic Channel on Feb. 1, and then stream the next day on Disney+ and Hulu, with two new episodes debuting weekly on all platforms. I have watched all 8 episodes & …
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If you have enjoyed my film reviews, how about joining me and Ken Bedell and a group via Zoom when we discuss Tyler Perry’s unusual (for him) A JAZZMAN’S BLUES? (B e sure to watch the film at your convenience on Netflix.) Ken is the founder of the group Ending-Racism.org, dedicated to ending “America’s Original …
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Through the story of a fictional Chicago housewife needing an abortion the story of the underground Jane Collective, the pre-Roe vs. Wade group providing abortions, is told.
A Black brother & sister in Pittsburgh argue over selling or keeping a piano carved with images of their Mississippi slave heritage.
The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in MS in 1955 sparks outrage leading to the C-R Movement, thanks to his determined mother Mamie.
Spanning several decades, this is a doomed love story of a Black jazz singer & a woman able to pass as white in a racist society.
Two young Black activist women take on the Mayor & the Chicago Police Dept.’s attempt to cover up the killings of unarmed Blacks.
The sad story of how the FBI used a Black thief to get close to & set up Black Panther leader Fred Hampton for assassination in Chicago.
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.