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Murder Incorporated: myths of US origin story exposed
Co-authored by Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria, this unique book exposes the early history of the United States that we were never taught in school.
What Latino Film Critics Are Saying About Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma’
Remezcla.com offers commentaries on what many critics are calling the year’s best movie, now in theaters and on Netflix. (P.S. Also check out the director’s Children of Men.)
Lessons of the Egyptian Spring
Revolution 2.0 shows that a brilliant use of social media is not a substitute for revolutionary parties that have absorbed the lessons of previous struggles.
Get Out and Sorry to Bother You get deep about race and class
Two brilliant films creatively use Afro-surrealism to blast their political targets.
Boots Riley on everything from electoral politics to Oakland history
A fascinating Democracy Now! interview with the communist, multi-talented creator of Sorry to Bother You.
Standing tall and fighting back
Palestinians tell their own story in The Last Earth. Author Ramsey Baroud teaches Palestinian history “as told by its tenacious victims, not barefaced aggressors.”
ABC cancels Roseanne reboot after Barr’s racist tweet. Good riddance.
“A semi-complete history” of her reactionary tweets from vox.com. Plus: An FSP presidential slate went head to head with pseudo-candidate Barr in 2012.
Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
A new documentary on Raisin in the Sun author Lorraine Hansberry, 1960s-era Black radical and artist.
Raoul Peck: ‘I’m Not in the Movie Business to Make Films’
Raoul Peck, creator of the James Baldwin documentary I Am Not Your Negro, says he made the just released Young Karl Marx for today’s generation of youth.
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