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NYFF/ Nickel Boys Review: RaMell Ross Triumphs in Daring Adaptation

It’s in the glimpses tragic and poetry happen. In the beginning of RaMell Ross’s extraordinary first narrative feature Nicke Boys, a realization of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, which opens the New York Film Festival, the filmmaker creates a world unlike any other. A child’s hand holds a leaf in the grass, a…

TV Review: The Underground Railroad is a Powerful Expression of America’s History

The Underground Railroad is an important relic from American history, one of this country’s earliest forms of organized resistance to systemic racism long before anyone would have utilized that term. When Black Africans were brought to the United States and enslaved, there were forward-thinking and humanitarian citizens who participated in a network that sought to…