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Do the Right Thing – Fight the Power
Spike Lee’s film, Do the Right Thing, depicts racial tensions on the hottest day of the summer in Bed-Stuy “do or die” Brooklyn, New York. The film addresses topics in black culture such as fashion and style, mental illness, racial stereotypes, boycotting and police brutality. It is important to note Read More Read More
The Hate U Give: Summary & Analysis
The Hate U Give is a film based on the bestselling novel by Angie Thomas. The film first premiered in October 2018 and grossed $29.7 million in the United States and Canada. It is about a black teenager named, Starr Carter, who is code switcher travelling between two worlds — the Read More Read More
BlacKKKlansman: Film Review
It’s the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (played by John David Washington) is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Through his determination to make a name for himself, Stallworth sets out on a dangerous mission: to infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The Read More Read More
Beauty and The Beast: Don’t Judge a Book by Its’ Cover
Beauty and the Beast was originally a 1991 animated musical romantic fantasy film produced and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was the 30th Disney animated feature film and the third released during the Disney Renaissance period (1989-1999), where films were created as adaptations of well known stories from around Read More Read More
Hidden Figures: The Women Who Showed Us All
The film, Hidden Figures, tells a tale of an overlooked team of African-American women who worked for the NASA program during its’ early years in the 1960’s. It’s a story of brilliance, struggle, and willpower to overcome the norms and standards in society through changing the way people look at Read More Read More
Beloved: A Review of The Mother, The Daughter, & The Unholy Spirit
Beloved is a 1987 novel written by Toni Morrison. The novel was transformed into a film directed by Jonathan Demme. The original film release date in America was on October 16, 1998. Both narrative forms of Beloved are set after the American Civil War, as the inspirational story of an Read More Read More