Dear White People (Recap) | Season 1
by Jeff Jensen | via Entertainment Weekly Smeared as reverse-racist on Twitter, promoted with sly trigger warnings by Netflix, Dear White People reveals itself to [read more]
Reel Reviews | Two Trains Runnin’
by Charles Kirkland, Jr. Producer Common narrates this stirring, emotional documentary about the search for two “Country” blues legends, Skip James and Eddie “Son” House [read more]
Greenleaf (Recap) | Born to Trouble (S2 E7)
by Jacqueline J. Holness | via After The Altar Call This is the last episode of OWN’s “Greenleaf” before the mid-season finale episode next Wednesday [read more]
Underground (Recap) | Auld Acquaintance (S2 E8)
by Latoya Ferguson | via Entertainment Weekly The episode starts with a quick check-in on Daniel, who received his inevitable punishment for learning to read [read more]
Shots Fired (Recap) | Hour Six: The Fire This Time (S1 E6)
by Joshua Alston | via Vulture Before Shots Fired aired on Fox, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where the producers screened the pilot [read more]
Reel Reviews | The House on Coco Road
by Charles Kirkland, Jr. The House on Coco Road is a documentary that ties Angela Davis to the Grenada Invasion. It tracks the story of [read more]
Reel Reviews | Zoology
by Charles Kirkland, Jr. “A tale about a tail” focuses on Natasha, a worker at the zoo. Her co-workers despise and torment her. Natasha tolerates [read more]
Reel Reviews | The Patriarch
by Charles Kirkland, Jr. Simeon Mahana is a smart young boy. He speaks with knowledge and integrity and earns the respect of all around him. [read more]