'Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty' Memoir Rejects Hagiography
In Kate Hennessy, a cautious voice emerges over the pious chatter about her famous grandmother, activist Dorothy Day.
18 May 2018
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Historian Martin Duberman Puts Us to Task with 'Has the Gay Movement Failed?'
Has the "gay movement" failed? Not yet, suggests this historian's survey. But it urgently needs to reinvent itself.
14 May 2018
Daryle Lamont Jenkins of Antifa Doc 'Alt-Right: Age of Rage' Isn't Waiting for Approval
Jenkins, founder of One Peoples Project, tells PopMatters that contrary to the fear many Americans feel, it's actually life-affirming to talk about fascism and racism.
23 Apr 2018
'The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.'
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a monolith of a man in his time and remains so today. But he was also a rebel, a necessary disrupter, a thorn in the feet of all who stood in his way.
04 Apr 2018
'Soul of a Nation' and 'The Wall of Respect' Prompt New Looks at Cutting-edge Black Art
No matter where you are on the wokeness spectrum, the Black Power era has yet to stop informing.
01 Feb 2018
Louise Thompson Patterson and the Long Tradition of Radical Struggle
Reading the struggle of Patterson and her comrades a century ago reminds us that today's racist violence is not a temporary aberration but a deeply rooted and pervasive flaw in American society.
18 Jan 2018
'Blood at the Root' and the Cultivation of Racial Hatred in America
The story of Georgia's all-white Forsyth County and how they made it that way.
16 Jan 2018
James Baldwin Matters
There's a reason why Ta-Nehesi Coates is often compared to James Baldwin, and there's a reason why Baldwin's work is so relevant in the age of Black Lives Matter.
15 Jan 2018
'The Force' Explores The Complexities of Law Enforcement Reform
The Force, which details the Oakland Police Department's recent reform efforts, is best viewed as a complementary work to prior Black Lives Matter documentaries, such 2017's Whose Streets? and The Blood Is at the Doorstep.
18 Dec 2017
In 'The Blood is at the Doorstep', a Family Suffers From an Intransigent Criminal Justice System
Erik Ljung's work is an auspicious cinematic debut which reminds that for every criminal justice statistic, there's a stirring story which deserves to be deeply considered.
13 Jun 2017
Conscience of Congress John Lewis Hopes You'll 'Get in the Way' of Things
Lewis’s lifelong philosophy on civil disobedience is admirable and urgent. Interview with Get in the Way Director, Kathleen Dowdey.
10 Feb 2017
The Real Walking Dead: Joshua M. Price's 'Prison and Social Death'
This book is about society. Shifting the focus from the individual (crime) to the social (punishment) is not so much a political choice as it is an ethical imperative.
01 Dec 2015
The FBI, MI5, the State Department and Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson was a powerful singer and orator whose towering intellect and strong beliefs in the dignity of all mankind may have cost him his reputation and career.
08 Apr 2014
AIF Docs 2013: 'American Revolutionary' + 'The Trials of Muhammad Ali'
American Revolutionary and The Trials of Muhammad Ali are both portraits of civil rights icons, people as well as symbols of struggles that continue.
26 Jun 2013
Civil Unrest, Panel by Panel
Writer Mark Long reconstructs childhood memories to depict Houston's monumental and harrowing events in a black & white graphic novel called The Silence of Our Friends.
19 Mar 2012
'Thurgood' Features Laurence Fishburne at the Top of His Game, but Without a Script to Match
The result of a bland script is a character who, for all the vivacity in Fishburne's performance, has little more to offer than one of the animatronics from Disneyland's Hall of Presidents.
20 Feb 2012
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