507 The Class of 1989 - A Special Year in Black Cinema (with Len Webb and Vincent Williams)
The History of Literature
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The Dry White Season
"Cry Freedom" is about a man in apartheid South Africa who starts waking up to the idea that there are systemic injustices. "I couldn't believe how close this was in the rhetoric and the themes to the discussions that we're having today on wokeness," says CNN's John Sutter. The film centers white people, but I felt like in a way I really appreciated that in a way that I didn't in a movie like "Mississippi", he adds.
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