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All families keep secrets, says director Nayibe Tavares-Abel. Hers are intimately intertwined with the democratic history of the Dominican Republic.
All families keep secrets, says director Nayibe Tavares-Abel. Hers are intimately intertwined with the democratic history of the Dominican Republic.
In this Venice Film Festival-winning feast of magical realist comedy, aging Ghanaian, Atta Oko, sets his sights on finally having his own boat and becoming the envy of his village.
‘The Disappearance of Miss Scott’ is an intimate and urgent reclamation of the life and legacy of Hazel Scott – Trinidadian born, virtuoso pianist, Hollywood trailblazer, civil rights crusader, and […]
In 1953, colonized Algeria, Fanon, a young black psychiatrist, was appointed head doctor at the Blida-Joinville Hospital.
After being elected to power in 1957, François Duvalier declared himself Haiti’s President for life in 1964, inaugurating one of the most bloodthirsty dictatorships of the 20th century – maintained […]
How do you raise a child when your own mother abandoned you?
Forty years ago, scholar Philomena Essed sparked fierce public debate with her groundbreaking book, Everyday Racism.
An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded by sugarcane fields.
In the mid-1970s, Rico, a 9-year-old Haitian boy, was brutally taken from his native land along with Erzulie, his mother, to a strange planet called Canada.
‘The Disappearance of Miss Scott’ is an intimate and urgent reclamation of the life and legacy of Hazel Scott – Trinidadian born, virtuoso pianist, Hollywood trailblazer, civil rights crusader, and […]
In a gripping and unpredictable 20-year quest, director Juan Carlos Rodríguez showcases the poignant story of Vieques.
Featuring a murder, Cold War conspiracies, Black Power, the end of the Empire, and how that connects to the policing and surveillance practices of today, ‘Walter Rodney: what they don't […]