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POSTED BY VINEYARDSAKER: AT 19:10 Foreword: I am so busy with the events in the Ukraine that I barely had the time to follow the events in Ferguson so I will readily admit that I have no opinion about it.  I do have quite a few opinions about race...

How Nina Simone turned the movement into music. My skin is black,” the first woman’s story begins, “my arms are long.” And, to a slow and steady beat, “my hair is woolly, my back is strong.” Singing in a club in Holland, in 1965, Nina Simone introduced...

America is dying from an idea she only dimly understands, so-called “progressivism.”  Progressivism is an ideology with no basis in fact or logic.  Its original proponents believed it to be a scientific approach to politics.[1]  That is “nonsense on...

STRAIGHT BLACK TALK: WE ARE AT A TIME OF CRISIS By Fahim A. Knight-El This Blog came about after I had a dialogue with a good friend and brother of mine who is a Christian Pastor, which I have tremendous respect for him and his commitment to black...

IF THERE IS ANY JUSTICE, Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight should transform Hollywood filmmaking; at the moment, however, justice seems a little less than certain, and so I want to make a case for the stylistic and narrative choices it makes. In the showings...