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‘MLK/FBI’ looks at J. Edgar Hoover’s crusade to undermine Martin Luther King Jr.
Government agents listened in as the saint of civil rights cheated on his wife
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George C. Wolfe’s appropriation blues
The director of the film adaptation of ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ has been tripping cultural land mines for decades
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It’s been a year of big change for Blackness in animation
Pixar is releasing ‘Soul,’ Matthew Cherry won an Oscar for ‘Hair Love,’ and Cleveland is finally voiced by a Black actor
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In ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ the New Negro and the Old collide
A new production on Netflix shimmers with career-defining work from Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman
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Director Garrett Bradley shows the bleak heart of the prison system in ‘Time’
The first Black woman to win the U.S. documentary prize at Sundance is a master of her craft
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Radha Blank relearns how to live in color in ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’
The playwright’s feature film debut on Netflix is a sweet and sharp coming-of-middle-age story
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‘Antebellum’ and ‘Lovecraft Country’ are gorgeous empty suits
Poor storytelling leaves viewers unable to digest what’s going on
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Gina Prince-Bythewood’s ‘The Old Guard’ overflows with new energy
A high-octane action flick leaves us convinced: A new action queen has been crowned
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‘Miss Juneteenth’ is a story of black women in a rush to define themselves
Aided by Maya Angelou’s ‘Phenomenal Woman,’ a mother prods her daughter toward something better