Book Review by Kam Williams
The Truths We Hold
An American Journey
by Kamala Harris
Penguin Press
Hardcover, $30.
336 pages
ISBN: 978-0-525-56071-5
“We've seen... administration align itself with white supremacists at home and cozy up to dictators abroad; rip babies from their mothers' arms in...
Kam Williams breaks down the Best of Black Cinema for 2018! Let's get it going . . .
Best Big Budget Black Films
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGCvdlaWUF0
1. If Beale Street Could Talk
2. Black Panther
3. Green Book
4. The Hate U Give
5. The Equalizer 2
6. Uncle...
In 1974, James Baldwin published “If Beale Street Could Talk,” a love story, set in Harlem, about a beleaguered black couple's pursuit of the elusive American Dream. Many critics consider the heartrending novel Baldwin's best work, perhaps because of...
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Creed II (PG-13 for violence, profanity and sensuality) Michael B. Jordan reprises the title role in this revenge-fueled sequel which finds the contender being trained by Rocky Balboa (Sly Stallone) for a grudge match with the son (Florian...
This Week's DVD Releases
Ant-Man and the Wasp
https://www.amazon.com/Ant-Man-Wasp-Blu-ray-Region-Digital/dp/B07J52FGX6/ref=sr_1_3?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1539700698&sr=1-3&keywords=Ant-Man+and+the+Wasp
Whitney
https://www.amazon.com/Whitney-Blu-ray-Houston/dp/B07G19F9VR/ref=sr_1_1_twi_blu_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1539700999&sr=1-1&keywords=whitney+dvd
Unfriended: Dark Web
https://www.amazon.com/Unfriended-Dark-Web-Colin-Woodell/dp/B07FDTF49Z/ref=tmm_dvd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1539701155&sr=1-2
Arizona
https://www.amazon.com/Arizona-Blu-ray-Danny-McBride/dp/B07FDVCMMH/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1539701394&sr=1-1&keywords=arizona+blu+ray&dpID=51B2-edixoL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
He's Out There
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Reprisal
https://www.amazon.com/Reprisal-Blu-ray-Bruce-Willis/dp/B07G13NKTH/ref=sr_1_1_twi_blu_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1539701898&sr=1-1&keywords=Reprisal+++blu+ray
Benched
https://www.amazon.com/Benched-Blu-ray-John-C-McGinley/dp/B07FSVYSG5/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1539701991&sr=1-1&keywords=Benched+++blu+ray
Cold Skin
https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Skin-Blu-ray-Ray-Stevenson/dp/B07H5VTBCY/ref=sr_1_1_twi_blu_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1539702243&sr=1-1&keywords=cold+skin+dvd
Down a Dark Hall
https://www.amazon.com/Down-Dark-Hall-Uma-Thurman/dp/B07G1QFFTC/ref=tmm_dvd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1539702488&sr=1-1
Boundaries
https://www.amazon.com/Boundaries-Bobby-Cannavale/dp/B07G28PHZS/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1539702897&sr=1-1&keywords=Boundaries+dvd&dpID=51CkKeAN9fL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) straddles two different worlds which never intersect, one, black and poor, the other, white and privileged. That's because she lives in the ghetto in Garden Heights, but her parents (Regina Hall and Russell Hornsby)...
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Bad Times at the El Royale (R for profanity, drug use, graphic violence and brief nudity) Suspense thriller revolving around seven strangers in search of redemption who rendezvous at a rundown hotel in Lake Tahoe. Co-starring Jeff Bridges,...
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The Darkest Minds (PG-13 for violence, disturbing images and mature themes) Adaptation of Alexandra Bracken's futuristic best seller set in the U.S. in the wake of a pandemic which has killed 98% of children under 20 and where...
Collin (Daveed Diggs) and Miles (Rafael Casal), who are black and white, respectively, have been best friends since they were kids. Now in their twenties, they both still live in the rough Oakland 'hood where they grew up, although...
Although Denzel Washington has made about four dozen movies over the course of his legendary career, he's never reprised a role until now. In The Equalizer 2, the two-time Oscar-winner (for Glory and Training Day) returns to play Robert...