Asian and African American gangs are vying for control of Oakland's waterfront. But when the first casualty is the Asian warlord's son, the gang war becomes more dangerous than either side ever imagined. Released: 2000 Directed by: Andrzej Bartkowiak Also ranks #5 on Every DMX Movie, Ranked...
Also known as Blood In Blood Out, this gritty crime drama delves into the complex world of gang life in the 1980s Chicano community of East Los Angeles. The film offers an eye-opening and often brutal depiction of the violence, loyalty, and brotherhood that characterized this tu...
Historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a nuanced revision of the story of two African-American trailblazers who, despite only meeting in person once, mutually ignited and propelled each other's journeys. 2 Youngest Nobel Prize Winner Little, Brown and Company 'I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up...
During a talk published in The Best American Poetry/Beyond Words in 2017, Vadori-Gauthier told me that she put together Une minute as “an act of poetic resistance”, incarnating, even as it does today, a radical affirmation of personhood, asserting the central place of the body, especially...
Native American activist Leonard Peltier has been released from a Florida prison, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to home confinement in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents ...
The Best African American Literature Farah Jasmine Griffin, Literary Scholar Buy now A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway Read expert recommendations “We think of Hemingway as an American writer, but much of his writing is set outside of the United States, just as much of his life was ...
Morell (American, b. Cuba, 1948) is best known for his use of the camera obscura process. A camera obscura is an ancient technology—a darkened room that admits light through a pinhole, projecting an image of the view outside onto the opposite wall. Morell’s innovation is in transforming...
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“The Woman King,” while based on a lesser-known segment of West African history during a decidedly fraught time in history, makes for a hell of a time at the movies, a seemingly “niche” topic with great appeal, the sort of battle-heavy feature that will likely engender plenty of hoo...
As the Injustice At Every Turn report painfully pointed out, Black transpeople are facing unemployment rates as high as 26% almost double the African American employment rate. The program had a start date of September 12 and would start with an initial class of 20 participants. The participants...