Activist Mary Scott-Boria shares her memories of Chicago’s Black Panther Party leader and the movement An Illinois Black Panther Party member in the late 1960s, Mary Scott-Boria doesn’t remember any shotgun shoot-outs with police as depicted in the new mo ...
28 Apr 2021 - Suzanne Hanney
‘Mr. Jones’ screenwriter Andrea Chalupa has family ties to Ukraine stretching from the 1930s famine to the Trump impeachment — with ‘Animal Farm’ and Soviet propaganda sprinkled in Ukraine being used as a pawn between super states will come as no surprise ...
7 Feb 2020 - Steven MacKenzie
COMMENTARY | Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-winning movie highlights the struggle of the profession Mexico City, 1970. Cleo’s alarm sounds very early in the morning. She gets up and climbs down the stairs from her rooftop room in the upper-middle-class house wher ...
1 Mar 2019 - Karina Patricio... and Arely Cruz-Santiago
Underrepresented elsewhere, First Nations people in Canada are working to create an Indigenous Walk of Fame to commemorate their work in the entertainment industry There is only one Indigenous person on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame: Jay Silverheels, the Mohaw ...
14 Sep 2018 - Cam Welch
Dawn Jones Redstone’s short film about reproductive justice features women of color leading the resistance The year is 2023. Health care of any kind is highly inaccessible and in some cases outlawed. Public utilities such as water are privatized and sev ...
23 Feb 2018 - Sarah Hansell
The Chinese activist, dissident, artist and exile’s new film, 'Human Flow,' focuses on the people the world would rather forget: refugees In his debut feature, “Human Flow,” Chinese artist Ai Weiwei stylishly documents the greatest migration of ...
15 Dec 2017 - Steven MacKenzie
Outside the Frame’s Annual Gala will premiere original works about leaving home The opening scene: 23-year-old Jacob Averi speaking at his mother’s memorial, his sister at his lefthand side. His mother was a drug addict throughout his life. His eulogy add ...
10 Nov 2017 - Sarah Hansell
Cats and dogs join their humans at Street Roots for a screening of “A Street Cat Named Bob" Pets are always welcome at the Street Roots vendor office, but on this particular Wednesday at the close of business, the animals are taking over. There’s a f ...
7 Jul 2017 - Jason Cohen
The artist, stuntman and motivational speaker discusses sobriety, his big break and Native representation in the film industry When Duane Howard arrived at the Canadian street paper Megaphone for an interview, he had just finished working on a talk he wou ...
7 Jul 2017 - Rosemary Newton
‘Immigration is an integral part to all that,’ says the actor who plays McDonald’s CEO Ray Kroc in ‘The Founder’ He’s starred in films from “Beetlejuice” to “Batman” to “Birdman.” From “The Paper” to “Spotlight.” Now, Michael Keaton plays Ray Kroc, the fo ...
19 May 2017 - Steven MacKenzie