Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America

Whenever there is a horrifying moment in the United States of America related to race, there sometimes is a knee-jerk reaction to it. "That's not who we are," is more or less the usual refrain. For conservatives, this "isn't who we are" because, regardless of what people of color have told everyone...

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Till the Clouds Roll By

It was surprising to me that when Lin-Manuel Miranda and his team decided to release Hamilton on Disney+ earlier this month, it was not a musical adaptation as is typically the case in Hollywood, but instead a filmed version of the staged show in 2016. This seems like a risky way to adapt the famous...

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Hit the Road

If films really are a machine for empathy, as Roger Ebert once said, then that would surely apply to the film Hit the Road from Iran written and directed by Panah Panahi, a road movie that will show many audience members that their chaotic, argumentative, sometimes fraught road trips involving...

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