I refuse to endorse films profiting off of Black history that are directed by non-Black people centering non-fiction African descendant of slaves as main characters because it feels more like puppeteering than storytelling. This is the reason why I have yet to see popular Black history inspired movies like Hidden Figures, directed by a white […]
If Beale Street Could Talk it would whisper to us all that the stories made on it are worth telling. It would remind us of the lives that were enhanced by its presence and it would sob for every life stolen from its sidewalks, screaming for all the potential greatness lost for every man that […]
Jordan Peele’s thriller film, Get Out, is number one in the box office and has earned over $30 million during its opening weekend. Audiences are curious to see Peele’s non-comedic perspective on racism completely outside of what we’re used to seeing in his skits from MADtv to his own show, Key & Peele. I must […]