The US film industry is more open to Black themes and participation than in the past, but still has not answered the question of what kind of society it will project, said Maryann Erigha, a professor of sociology and African American Studies at the University of Georgia, and author of the new book, “The Hollywood Jim Crow: Racial Politics of the Movie Industry.” “Is it a sanitized whiteness, is it a whitewashed vision, or can we have this unapologetic Blackness, and that just be part of the American cultural canon?”
A statement from Free Palestine Charleston regarding their recent protest against Joe Biden's ongoing genocide in Palestine while he spoke at Mother Emanuel AME Church.
Israel faces South Africa in International Court of Justice, Biden uses Black church as a backdrop, and a federal judge rules in favor of voter eligibility challenges.
Richard Medhurst, independent journalist, joins to discuss events in Gaza as the International Court of Justice prepares considers South Africa’s invoking the genocide convention against Israel.
Marcus McDonald, lead organizer with Charleston Black Lives Matter and Tamara, Palestinian American organizer with Free Palestine Charleston, join to discuss how an historic Black church was used for…
Andrew Garber of the Brennan Center joins us to discuss a Georgia judge’s decision in favor of True the Vote, an organization whose mass challenges of voter eligibility limit the franchise,…
