This is the sixth and final posting in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of my participation in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, highlighting Parts 14, 15, & 16 of the Journal I kept during the two weeks I was at Shaw, Mississippi, a small town about 125 miles north of Jackson in the northwestern section …
The Long Game (2023)
This is the second film in which director/writer Julio Quintana chronicles the struggles of a group of Latinos—and Dennis Quaid was also in Quintana’s Blue Miracle. The new film is based on Humberto G. Garcia’s 2010 non-fiction book Mustang Miracle that celebrates an all Latino high school golf team that was the first such team …
Cabrini (2024)
With little fanfare this inspiring film opened in our theaters midway into Women’s History Month, but it is even more timely—and significant– for another reason. It is probably the best defense of immigrants that you will see in this or any year. Although the name Mother Cabrini is well known because she became the first …
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
The true story of the nephew of a white rancher posing as a friend of the Osage. He marries a wealthy tribal member & agrees to his uncle’s plot to poison her slowly so he will inherit her land rich in oil.
Little Big Voice (20215)
A mixed-race boy in post-war Austria living with his prejudiced grandparents wants to join the Vienna Boys’ Choir to find his GI father who is unaware of his existence.
Mr. and Mrs. Loving (1996)
An ordinary white man and a mixed blood woman’s marriage leads to the Supreme Court case that struck down Virginia’s miscegenation law.
TITANIC (1997)
A boy from the lower class & an upper class girl fall in love on the ill-fated maiden cruise of the Titanic.
Devotion (2022)
The story of the friendship between the Navy’s 1st Black pilot & a white flyer during the Korean War.
Saint Omer (2022)
A pregnant professor attends the trial of another African French woman accused of killing her infant daughter.
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (2016)
Raoul Peck uses an unpublished James Baldwin work as his guide & script, enriched by archival clips & interviews, to expose racism in the US.