This Lorraine Hansberry play, set in the 1960s in a fictional African country, speaks incisively to the American present. Danny Sapani as Tshembe Matoseh, who has returned to Africa from…
The company didn’t set out to build a big library of Black programming, but now it’s the envy of its rivals. The Black documentarian Stanley Nelson says his phone has…
A documentary on the last five years of Colin Kaepernick’s life could be coming to Disney soon. Disney and Kaepernick’s production company — RA Vision Media — signed a “first look”…
BY DAN PROTESS. FIRSTHAND IS A MULTIPLATFORM INITIATIVE FROM WTTW, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE TRACE. A 15 PART DOCUMENTARY SERIES, 30 MIN EACH, 2020 The number of gun violence victims…
The Colorado police officers who took disturbing photos at the memorial site where Elijah McClain was placed in a police chokehold and later died have all been terminated from the…
Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb general convicted of ordering the execution of 8,000 men and boys from Srebrenica, will spend this week’s 25th anniversary of the slaughter in a cell…
Pussy Riot have shared a new song, inspired by the recent wave of Black Lives Matter protests. ‘Riot’ also appears to reference the recent arrest of band member Peter Verzilov,…
When Timothy Berry decided to attend the U.S. Military Academy West Point, patriotism was one of his driving factors. He describes it as an active verb, not merely "a flag…
On May 25, a white Minneapolis police officer named Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck until his body went limp. The assault was caught on video. Floyd, 46, gasped…
Unable to shield her children from the global conversation on anti-Black racism, Christabel Nsiah-Buadi is leaning in to celebrating her kids’ #BlackBoyJoy and #BlackGirlMagic. But, she writes, real change takes…