Black Liberation

10 Aug Animation as Imagination: The Liberating Power of “Practical Abolition”

Posted at 14:56h in Abolition, Black Liberation, Civic Engagement, Conversations and Collaborations, Critical Conversations, Mass Incarceration by Kristal Sotomayor 0 Comments

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Practical Abolition shifts the narrative around the benefits of policing. The animated film imagines what Philadelphia could look like if we invested in healing our communities instead of policing them....

03 Mar The Proud Boys of Bacurau

Posted at 21:29h in Black Liberation, Colonialism, Critical Conversations, Film Reviews, Indigenous by Sophia Abraham-Raveson 0 Comments

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BY DALI ADEKUNLE Philadelphia Free Library cardholders can enjoy Bacurau for free on Kanopy. You can sign up online for a library card and create your Kanopy account. Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles' Bacurau (2019) is an homage to and self-portrait of Afro-Indigenous Brazil. The opening...

17 Feb Our Right to Gaze: A Defiant Declaration

Posted at 20:36h in Black Liberation, Conversations and Collaborations, On-Screen Representation by Sophia Abraham-Raveson 0 Comments

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BY BEDATRI D. CHOUDHURY OUR RIGHT TO GAZE is a collaborative project of Full Spectrum Features (Chicago), Northwest Film Forum (Seattle), The Luminal Theater (NYC), and Circle Collective (NYC). cinéSPEAK is honored to be a presenting partner of their incredible short film program. The program will be...

09 Dec Copaganda : An Introduction to How Media Affects Our Perception of Policing and Criminal Justice

Posted at 13:09h in Abolition, Black Liberation by Sophia Abraham-Raveson 0 Comments

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BY JOSH LEIDY This series about copaganda aims to explore how visual media helps shape the way our society views police and policing, and why copaganda is preventing us from progressing to a better society. Telling stories from cops’ viewpoints warps perspective and erases the larger...

16 Oct Let’s Talk: Shawn Alleyne and Xion Network

Posted at 14:55h in Black Liberation, Uncategorized by sarah 0 Comments

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BY ALEX SMITH SERIES INTRO: For these strange times, Alex Smith for cinéSPEAK presents a recurring series of articles and interviews that will take a look at the electric Philadelphia sci-fi, fantasy and speculative futures community! This series will showcase the region’s fantastic arts through a...

23 Sep Stoner Movies Strain Equitable Legalization

Posted at 14:04h in Abolition, Black Liberation, Cannabis Legalization, Mass Incarceration, On-Screen Representation by sarah 0 Comments

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BY PAURY FLOWERS If you were dropped on Earth and had to form an opinion after watching the top 10 Stoner movies from Rolling Stone (movies like Cheech and Chong, Pineapple Express and Big Lebowski), you would likely notice patterns of maleness, Whiteness, sloth, and comedic...

10 Aug Hollywood Has a White Dude Problem

Posted at 17:23h in Black Liberation by sarah 0 Comments

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BY JORDAN KAUWLING The other night I was watching the 2006 Darren Aronofsky film The Fountain. It’s about a guy who travels across time and space to reunite with his great love. Or maybe it’s more a travel of the mind. I’m not sure. It’s an...

02 Aug Fan-Casting: The Milestone Universe

Posted at 00:23h in Animation, Black Liberation, Fan-Casting by sarah 0 Comments

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BY ALEX SMITH Gay and trans characters, frank discussion about race, the war on drugs, political intrigue, societal generation gaps within the Black liberation movement, and all the healthy (and unhealthy) teen angst to fill any CW show writer’s moleskine— we’re talking about Milestone Comics, an...

12 Jun Black Joy + Rebellion: A Watch List for This Moment

Posted at 03:30h in Black Liberation, Uncategorized, Watchlist by sarah 0 Comments

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by john morrison If you are Black living in a world inundated with anti-blackness, joy and resistance can appear interchangeable. Whether in music, art, violence, love, sex, wherever, when Black rebellion occurs, we bask in the joy of resistance. When we take the time to play,...