James Baldwin

As production began on his latest evocative adaptation If Beale Street Could Talk, director Barry Jenkins must have felt he was dealing with the exact opposite kind of problem than he faced while making the Oscar winning Moonlight. Before…

“What will cause the riot?” wrote Spike Lee in his diary back in 1989. “Take your pick: an unarmed Black child shot, the cops say he was reaching for a gun; a grandmother shot to death by cops with a shotgun; a young woman charged with…