The Audacity of Certain Black Ballers

By Mark Reynolds

The distance we’ve come from Jackie Robinson hawking Chock Full o’Nuts coffee in the ‘50s, and black A-list jocks hawking virtually anything under the sun today, is astounding. [17 July 2009]

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Tyson

By Cynthia Fuchs

Tyson is about the processes that make Mike Tyson. [24 April 2009]

Harvard Man (2001)

By Leah Hochbaum

Harvard Man's refusal to pass judgment on characters' drug use is troubling. [22 August 2002]

Black and White (2000)

By Cynthia Fuchs

'I'm a kid in America, I can do whatever I want.' Jutting her chin at the camera, New York City high schooler Charlie (Bijou Phillips) mouths off to her stuffy-suit dad, who's been pestering her about where she goes after school. [1 January 1995]

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