Did you know that if you’re a poor and unemployed single mother, before you can get any financial assistance from the government you must have a job? On top of...
Culture in Context
Trees have friends. Trees talk to each other and send over resources when a neighbor is in need. Trees nurture their children. Trees sound the alarm about...
In September 2019, when Peter Nicks started shooting a documentary about the senior class at Oakland High School, he’d already made two award-winning films...
There’s a touching scene toward the end of the new documentary Who Are You, Charlie Brown? where Charles Schulz, the creator of the beloved Peanuts characters...
Best Summer Ever (available on Hoopla and to buy or rent on streaming platforms) is a predictable summer film about adolescent yearning and intrigue, an homage...
“True Facts,” little bitty animal movies, are treasures of bug and bird and bat lore. They are laugh-out-loud delightful, thanks to Ze Frank, their witty...
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins’ Amazon Prime series The Underground Railroad, adapted from Colson Whitehead’s 2016 novel, is a 10-part mind-bending, gut...
It’s so nice to visit England. It’s even more delightful to time travel back to the years before the Second World War, remembered nostalgically through the...
For the past 21 years, I’ve taught at historically Black colleges, and several times during those years the theater department has either hosted or produced a...
I have little to no interest in “Christian films.” I find most boring and trite, seldom saying anything that feeds my soul. Neat or sanitized affirmations of...
