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In the 1980s, there were only 63 Black films by, for, or about Black Americans. But in the 1990s, that number quadrupled, with 220 Black films making their way to cinema screens nationwide. What sparked this “Black New Wave?” Who blazed this path for contemporaries like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Jordan Peele? And how did these films transform American culture as a whole? Presenting The Class of 1989, a new limited-run series from pop culture critics Len Webb and Vincent Williams, hosts ...
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Wesley and I discuss attending the Black Lives Matter protest and seeing the limited damage with our own eyes in Seattle and Dallas. Police stories from China and the US and his journey from feeling out of place and disenfranchised in the jingoistic American Church to embracing the structure of Catholicism. And growing up in China we don't feel comfortable being in the majority in the States. 3rd Culture kids.
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