As a team with a Native logo prepares to play at the Super Bowl, a timely documentary asks for sports to again reconsider the use of stereotypesThe documentary film-maker Ben West hails from Washington DC, and thus grew up rooting for its football team...
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Chameleon Street, a true-crime comedy about the fraudster who passed as a lawyer, a surgeon and even a basketball-player, fell foul of a racist Hollywood. Can it now be a hit? We speak to its directorWhen he won the grand jury prize at the 1990 Sundanc...
The Oscar-nominated film is a biting satire of the publishing industry’s obsession with stereotypical ‘Black’ stories. It’s eerily true to life, says author Otegha Uwagba, who speaks to the film’s creators about how they brought Percival Everett’s boo...
In a new HBO documentary, writer Charles Blow explores how moving to the south could lead to important political and societal change for Black AmericansFrom 1915 to 1970, an estimated 6 million Black Americans left their homes in the south, fleeing Jim...
The 85-year-old has fought for his place as an artist, capturing the complexities of the Black experience on canvas, in ways that provoke and inspireAt 85 years of age, Arvie Smith is arguably in his finest form ever. The artist retired from teaching i...
The Rolling Stone co-founder apologised for controversial comments about Black and female musicians, but they exposed rock journalism’s previously unspoken biasesIn 2020, I was a guest on the Who Cares About the Rock Hall? podcast, discussing why one o...
There are solid performances in this dramatisation of Isabel Wilkerson’s attempt to explain racism as an aspect of the caste system, but it may have been better as a documentaryAva DuVernay is a film-maker who has long been committed to a bracing cinem...
The Irish musician expressed solidarity and an appreciation for Black music with gospel, rap and roots reggae recordings, which were often fuelled by her own experiences of marginalisationOn paper, jungle – one of the defining, pioneering sounds of 90s...
The movement born at a New York block party in 1973 is now global, an instrument for learning and a weapon for protestOn 11 August 1973, Clive Campbell (popularly known as Kool Herc), an 18-year-old DJ, hosted a party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bro...
She doubled for Pam Grier on Foxy Brown, dodged moving cars in The Blues Brothers and once spent an entire year in a body cast. All while fighting for the rights of other stunt performersJadie David’s entry into the movie business sounds like a scene f...