It’s somewhat exhausting living in a time in which “Fake News” has become a rallying cry. When it first became a meme, it seemed like a genuinely important distinction to make for people who’ve spent most of their lives swallowing everything the “media” was dishing out. Not only does everyone want to believe the stuff […]
Birth of a Nation
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Born Into This
“The Birth of A Nation” divides
There is no real way to talk about Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” without first addressing some of the controversy surrounding it. Parker co-wrote, co-produced, starred and directed the film (about Nat Turner’s slave rebellion in 1831), appropriating the title from D.W. Griffith’s 1915 Ku Klux Klan propaganda film. The original film is […]