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…
The 79th Golden Globe Awards were handed out tonight, but not in traditional fashion. After reports of the group’s lack of diversity in its membership and their eagerness to accept very generous gifts, NBC had announced that it would not air the broadcast this year. The postponement of other awards ceremonies due to the pandemic…
This dialogue between director Barry Jenkins and his composer Nicholas Britell details the unfolding process of creation just as their making of the music underscored the creative process which illuminated in Jenkins’ 10-episode adaptation of author Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel, The Underground Railroad.” In Whitehead’s alternative world the system that saved many lives of escaping…
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…
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