Spike Lee’s latest film, about a black detective infiltrating the Klan, once again raises the issue of how seriously cinema should take the white supremacist group.
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With BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee Sounds the Alarm About America’s Past and Present | The Atlantic
The director’s newest film follows a policeman who successfully infiltrated the KKK in the 1970s, but the story it tells is also very much about the U.S. today.
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The Troubling Fate of a 1973 Film About the First Black Man in the C.I.A. | The New Yorker
Ivan Dixon’s 1973 film, “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” which is playing at Metrograph from Friday through Sunday (it’s also on DVD and streaming), is a political fiction, based on a novel by Sam Greenlee, about the first black man in the C.I.A.
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WATCH: ‘Quest’ Follows a Black Family’s Highs, Lows for 8 Years | Colorlines
The PBS-streamed documentary follows the Rainey family throughout the Obama administration to offer a rare, complex portrait of a working-class Black family.
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Chloe And Halle Bailey Are More Than Alright | NPR
It’s a cliché, but it’s true: Adults are always complaining about the next generation. Chloe and Halle Bailey have something to say about that.
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Tribeca Film Festival hosts screening and Q&A for ‘Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story’ | New York Amsterdam News
Martin’s extrajudicial killing seemed to reopen a portal to history many had fought to shut tight—a time when the Klu Klux Klan routinely and with impunity killed Blacks in the South and across rural America in the 100 years from Reconstruction through the civil rights era.
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The jewels of Tribeca Film Fest, through April 28 | New York Amsterdam News
One of the best short films we’ve ever seen about race in this country is the animated short, “The History of White People in America…”
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Atlanta’s Zazie Beetz Has Earned Your Attention | GQ
The star of Atlanta and newcomer to Deadpool 2 talks to GQ about her killer year (and all the anxieties that come with it).
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I Saw Myself in ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’ But I Had to Work Hard. | The New York Times
It is still my favorite from childhood, but now, rather than contort myself into Meg, I am able to see how the novel’s play with time and space continues to influence me as an African-American writer.
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‘Orange Is the New Black’ Actress Uzo Aduba to Play the First Female Baseballer Toni Stone | Atlanta Black Star
Stone, a Black woman, made history in 1953 when she became the first woman ever to play in men’s professional leagues after joining the Negro Leagues.
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