Documentary
Culture
In ‘Rock Rubber 45s,’ Bobbito García gives hip-hop another gift: the truth about sexual trauma
The industry icon offers up a DJ Cucumber-flavored slice of American life
Culture
Jean-Michel Basquiat documentary ‘Boom for Real’ reveals the origins of an artist who influenced so much of contemporary hip-hop
From SAMO to ‘Famous Negro Athletes,’ Basquiat was the product of a grungy and dangerous New York
Sports
Celebrity docuseries are usually fluff. Not HBO’s ‘Being Serena.’
A life-threatening post-delivery scare gives series on Williams a far more serious tone
Culture
Superproducer Zaytoven’s gospel truth about trap music: It needs to be ‘spontaneous and unorthodox’
He’s a man of faith, plays the organ and the keytar — and creates huge hits with stars like Gucci Mane, Nicki Minaj and the Migos
Culture
‘Tell Them We Are Rising’: Q&A with filmmaker Stanley Nelson
The documentary highlighting and celebrating the importance of HBCUs airs Monday night on PBS
HBCU
‘Tell Them We Are Rising’ doesn’t tell the whole story of HBCUs, but it’s a start
Documentary on PBS is the equivalent of an introductory survey course
Culture
New documentary shows us that Lorraine Hansberry of ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ was one tough-minded woman
‘Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart’ portrays a ‘left-wing radical’ who spoke truth to power
Culture
Recy Taylor, subject of new documentary about the rape of black women during Jim Crow, has died
97-year-old was at a nursing home in the same Alabama town where she had been attacked
Culture
‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’ explores the little-known terror campaign against black women
Just as black men were lynched, black women faced systemic sexual violence under Jim Crow