‘The Underground Railroad’ and Cinema’s Origins in White Supremacy
In adapting the alternative history The Underground Railroad, Barry Jenkins and his crew made cinema – a medium with origins in white supremacy – work for them.
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Amanda Gorman’s History Lesson: An Inaugural Poem in the Shadow of White Supremacy
From the onset, Amanda Gorman's poem, "The Hill We Climb", dissolves the ideology that a presidential inauguration announces the new and deracinates the present from the past.
Parallels of HIV/AIDS in Tony Kushner’s ‘Angels in America’ and COVID-19 in Trump’s America
Tony Kushner's Angels in America foreshadows our current state of sick politics and bodies and, in particular, the presence of Trump in a time of plague.
Journalist Desmond Cole Confronts Canada’s Anti-Black Racism
In The Skin We're In, Canadian journalist Desmond Cole reveals the shocking scale of racism in a country that prefers to look the other way.
Why Is It So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism?
In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo commits the error of telling her readers what to think instead of providing ways to use critical thinking to challenge societal norms.
‘So You Want to Talk About Race’?
Author and activist Ijeoma Oluo pens a user-friendly yet pointed examination of how to face and start dismantling America’s racist society.
Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ Gives Us Insight Into Our 20th Century Sins
For reasons as much aesthetic as intellectual, The Crown can proudly take its place among the highlights of TV's current golden age.