Roger Ebert Reviews

One of my father’s biggest hobbies was playing music. He owned a vast collection of vinyl records that he would play and mix on his two turntables, and as a child, I would sit in the basement with him seemingly for hours, listening to the latest funk, disco, and R&B records of the ’70s and […]

Growing up as a big fan of animation, I gravitated toward projects featuring Black people from different walks of life in leading roles across multiple genres. During my youth, there was a brief time—emphasis on brief—when Black animation representation had variety and quality. Some of my fondest childhood memories were coming home after a long

Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker’s “The Stroll” is a riveting documentary about transgender women of color during the 1990s and early 2000s engaging in sex work in an area known as The Stroll in the Meatpacking District of lower Manhattan. It is a story of despair, sisterhood, and triumph. From the start, this film reveals

Ready, Set, Go! Imagine you are playing “Super Mario Kart”! Who do you picture playing alongside you, or even better, who do you picture building those games? If you were to tell five-year-old Jewel that she’d be producing a video game at a Black-owned game studio, she’d scream! I grew up an avid gamer and

The following table of contents features all articles published during Black Writers Week 2023 (June 19th through June 25th), arranged in the following categories: intros, features, interviews, reviews, TV reviews, republished features, republished interviews and republished reviews. —The Editors INTROS An Introduction to Black Writers Week 2023 by Chaz Ebert Meet the Writers of Black Writers Week 2023 by

My word of wisdom to other students would be to stay focused and consistent. There are so many influences around us it is hard to remain focused on our goals. But if we put in the work great things will come. One change I wish to see in the world is people becoming kinder and not having their

Raine Allen-Miller’s directorial debut “Rye Lane” made waves at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and arrives on Hulu this week. The movie follows Dom (David Jonsson), Yas (Vivian Oparah), and their fateful meeting in the gender-neutral restroom at an art exhibit. What begins as a thorny meet-cute turns into the longest unofficial first date ever,

Mo Washington (Letitia Wright) is a freedwoman. She has been free for five years since the end of the Civil War, even if she has nowhere to exercise that freedom. She has a deed for land in Colorado, but when her stagecoach is ambushed by marauders, her plan and property are stuck in limbo. Posing

Tommy Walker and Ross Hockrow’s documentary “Kaepernick & America” is a haunting reminder of this country’s racial plight. The film explores the life of Colin Kaepernick, former NFL quarterback and activist, as he took a stance against racism and police brutality. Kaepernick, like Tommie Smith and John Carlos before him, became a symbol of racial

Within the first 20 minutes of “The Blackening,” Dewayne Perkins, its star and co-writer, offers a different vision of a Black horror comedy. For one, his character DeWayne is an openly gay Black man who’s come to a cabin in the woods to spend Juneteenth with his old college friends. As a Black man, in