'The Most Dangerous Year' will make you cry and make you angry, but if you care about civil rights you need to see this movie
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Random Acts’ Written and Performed by Renata Hinrichs
Atticus Finch is on Broadway, but 'Random Acts,' Renata Hinrichs' penetrating and much more intimate evocation of our racist history, is just six blocks downtown.
Read More »Music Review: ‘Stax ’68: A Memphis Story’ 5-Disc Box Set from Craft Recordings
On 'Stax '68: A Memphis Story,' history never looked so bleak while sounding so good. A brief glance at the track lists will begin to open your eyes, but the history of the record company from 1968 will blow your mind.
Read More »‘The Souls of Black Folk’ by W.E.B. Du Bois – An Appreciation
Gone for over half a century, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois lives on through his thought and his prose. A new edition from Restless Books offers an excellent opportunity to broaden our perspective on questions of race in America by increasing our understanding of racism's history and sociology, enlightened by one of the country's most creative minds.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Kunstler’ by Jeffrey Sweet
William Kunstler was a towering figure in the 1960s and 1970s; wherever he went controversy followed him.
Read More »I am Ashamed to be an American, Part Two
If only someone had miraculously turned back the clock to the good ol' days of slavery, or at least to the pre-Civil Rights era, everything would have been just fine. No one was complaining back then, not even the poor whites, for they were still far better off than the blacks and the rest of us who had trickled in afterwards.
Read More »Blu-ray/Music Review: ‘What Happened, Miss Simone?’
'What Happened, Miss Simone?' is a great documentary about an amazing woman that comes with a bonus CD containing some of her greatest songs.
Read More »Interview: Joseph B. Atkins, Author of ‘Casey’s Last Chance’
Interview with Joseph B Aitkens, author of "Casey's Last Chance": "Well, the truth is that if you’re really a writer, you’re doing it because you don’t have a choice. You’ve got to do it."
Read More »Book Review: ‘Forgotten, The Untold Story of D-Day’s Black Heroes, at Home and at War’ by Linda Hervieux
In 'Forgotten,' Hervieus tells the story of this group of freedom fighters as she also imbues the work with the tensions of the racial politics of the time as well as the human bravery for a group fighting for freedom and for many giving up their lives for something they had yet to earn for themselves.
Read More »The Funeral
"I'm tired of preaching funeral sermons about dead people who have never lived to dead people who have never lived," said Reverend Ledbetter.
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