November 5, 2019
Roger Ross Williams grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania and then moved to New York to, as he has said, escape both racism and homophobia in his hometown
African American Media
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September 19, 2019Jacqueline Olive’s debut feature, Always in Season —its title a nod to the year-round racial terror that African-Americans, especially in the Deep
July 22, 2019In 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
February 7, 2019I first saw Hale County This Morning, This Evening , RaMell Ross’s cinematic look at daily life in the Alabama Black Belt, at last year’s CPH:DOX. It
January 30, 2019Transcription of Michele Stephenson's Keynote address from Getting Real '18.
January 16, 2018When she was a teenager in the late '70s growing up in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suburbs, filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain was taken by her
December 19, 2017Premiering at Sundance—and subsequently going on to win top honors at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, among other high-caliber fests, and
November 7, 2017Strong Island is Yance Ford's cinematic nonfiction exploration of racial injustice in the Long Island suburbs, told through the murder of the
June 6, 2017Margaret Byrne's Raising Bertie (executive produced by J. Cole) is an intimate, six-year journey into the lives of three young, African-American men
December 1, 2016Stanley Nelson has, for the past quarter-century, established himself as an indefatigable chronicler of the African-American experience, bringing to