July 21, 2021 'Stateless' Confronts Anti-Blackness in the Dominican Republic and Haiti On September 13, 2013, the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic ruled that children born to non-citizens in the country since 1929 are not Read more
May 14, 2021 BBC and CNN Team Up On 'Race for the Vaccine' Like many of us struggling through the pandemic, Kizzy Corbett has turned to guided meditation to help manage her anxiety. But Corbett has more to Read more
June 26, 2020 'And She Could be Next': A New Look at Women of Color in Politics And She Could Be Next , directed by Grace Lee and Marjan Safinia, is a two-part docuseries that follows the campaigns of six women of color running Read more
September 30, 2019 How Diego Became Maradona Asif Kapadia’s new documentary about the Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona, a player almost as famous for his dubious conduct off the pitch as for Read more
July 22, 2019 'The Changing Same' Takes on the Legacy of Lynching In 1934, Claude Neal, a 23-year-old African-American farm worker was accused of the rape and murder of a young white woman. Eight days later he was Read more
September 23, 2018 Life in the Time of Ebola: Inside the 2014 Epidemic in Sierra Leone "Arthur Pratt. Everybody was telling me, if I was looking for a filmmaker in Sierra Leone, go meet with Arthur Pratt," says Banker White from his Read more
March 14, 2018 All About My Father: Rebecca Miller's Intimate Portrait of a Great American Artist Rebecca Miller was 21 years old when she realized that she wanted to be a filmmaker. Noticing that her father—distinguished Pulitzer Prize-winning Read more
January 16, 2018 Young, Gifted and Black: A New Documentary Celebrates the Writer/Activist Lorraine Hansberry When she was a teenager in the late '70s growing up in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suburbs, filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain was taken by her Read more
September 15, 2017 In Country: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Bring Fresh Eyes to 'The Vietnam War' Vietnam looms large in the American psyche. It was a war with no news blackouts or selectively embedded journalists, and it was discussed at the Read more
April 26, 2017 Ripple Effect: 'The Prison in Twelve Landscapes' Traces the Geography of the Carceral State Things are rarely black and white in the realm of nonfiction, but when it comes to social justice in these United States, events can seem to align Read more