Stanley Nelson’s latest film “Attica” was picked for the Oscar Documentary Short List. It’s playing on Showtime and available free for a limited time on YouTube. In February, the Criterion Channel will present a retrospective titled “Black History Rising: Documentaries…
ATTICA
This unnervingly vivid dive into the 1971 uprising from Emmy® winning director Stanley Nelson sheds new light on the enduring violence and racism of the prison system and highlights the urgent, ongoing need for reform 50 years later. Full documentary…
Remembering Author Toni Morrison
The author Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88. She was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and best known for her nuanced discussion of race in America. (Source: The New York Times)
Broadcast Reporter Harold Dow Remembered
A “48 Hours Mystery” tribute to five-time Emmy Award winning correspondent Harold Dow who passed away on Aug. 21, 2010, at the age of 62.
Iceberg Slim Interviewed About His Book ‘Trick Baby’
Iceberg Slim sits down with host Joe Pyne to talk about his second book TRICK BABY, also made into a movie that was released in 1972.
‘The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution’: History Comes Alive on the Big Screen at the Nashville Film Festival
By Gregory Crofton History comes alive in Stanley Nelson’s documentary about the Black Panthers, a revolutionary African-American political group that formed in 1966 to stop police brutality against their community. The Second Amendment — the right to bear arms —…