Tag: documentary
1955 warrant in Emmett Till case found, family seeks arrest
By Jay Reeves and Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press
A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett...
New Documentary Tells the True Story of Black and Brown Environmentalists
The organization Black Millennials For Flint made “Toward Environmental Justice” to teach others about the influence of Black and Indigenous folk on the Environmental...
PRESS ROOM: Gravitas Ventures Acquires Documentary, “Twenty Pearls: The Story of Alpha Kappa Alpha...
“The story of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority is not a Black story; it is an American story. Through our partnership with Gravitas, our goal...
Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali Doc is Based on Ga. Professor’s Book
By Rodney Ho, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In the early 1960s, firebrand preacher Malcolm X and boxing phenom Cassius Clay became close friends, a fascinating relationship...
FILM REVIEW: Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
By Dwight Brown, NNPA Newswire Film Critic
Decades ago, long before BLM protestors marched and chanted “George Floyd—I can’t breathe,” demonstrators shouted “Yusuf. Yusuf. Yusuf....