Educate Yourself on Police Bias Against Black & Brown Communities With ‘When They See Us’ Study Guide

Manuel Betancourt — Fri, 29 May 2020 16:27:46 +0000

Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us was always meant to incite necessary if uncomfortable conversations — about police bias against black and brown communities, about a justice system that criminalizes poverty, about the epidemic of mass incarceration, about media bias. In sum, about many issues that were timely back in the 1990s when the story of the

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Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Now Is Uplifting a New Generation of Black Brazilian Filmmakers

Kiratiana Freelon — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:50:23 +0000

Most of Brazil’s most internationally-acclaimed films about black people were not produced or directed by Black Brazilians. A white French man directed 1959’s Orfeu Negro. A white Brazilian woman and man directed City of God. A white man produced and directed the critically acclaimed Bus 174 documentary that told the back story of a black

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