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Turning Point

DOCUMENTARY FILM Netflix Politics

‘Turning Point’ Brings Home the Horror and Tragedy of 9/11

September 10, 2021September 15, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments 9/11, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Guantanamo Bay, Osama bin Laden, Turning Point, War on Terror

The ‘War On Terror’ was a failure

President

NON-FICTION Politics

Presidenting Is Hard

August 18, 2020March 15, 2022 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments 60 Minutes, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, John Dickerson, The Hardest Job in the World, The West Wing

‘The Hardest Job In the World: The American Presidency,’ by John Dickerson

Black joy

FILM Netflix TELEVISION

Black Content That’s Not Just About Trauma

July 1, 2020July 3, 2020 Jake Harris 1 Comment A Black Lady Sketch Show, Ashley Nicole Black, Barack Obama, Eddie Murphy, F. Gary Gray, Gabrielle Dennis, Hollywood Shuffle, Inside Man, Jada Pinkett Smith, Michelle Obama, Omar Epps, Queen Latifah, Quinta Brunson, Robert Townsend, Robin Thede, Set It Off, Southside With You, Spike Lee, Taye Diggs, The Fits, The Watermelon Woman, The Wood, Vivica A. Fox

Sketch comedies, family dramas, surrealist horror, and a couple of heist flicks

Bakari Sellers

Memoir NON-FICTION

The Vanishing Country of Bakari Sellers

June 11, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Bakari Sellers, Barack Obama, Harriet Wilson, Malcolm X, Ta-Nehisi Coates

An urgent memoir, a call to action

Crip Camp

DOCUMENTARY FILM Netflix

‘Crip Camp’ Tells the Story of the Birth of the Disability Rights Movement

May 4, 2020May 8, 2020 Mia McCullough 1 Comment Barack Obama, Camp Jened, Crip Camp, Jim LeBrecht, Michelle Obama, Nicole Newenham

A life-affirming vision of social progress

The Last Dance

DOCUMENTARY Sports TELEVISION

The Top 10 Things About the First Two Parts of ‘The Last Dance’

April 20, 2020April 23, 2020 Zack Teibloom 0 Comments Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Chicago Bulls, Dennis Rodman, ESPN, Michael Jordan, Oprah, Phil Jackson, Scottie Pippen, The Last Dance, Toni Kukoc

Jordan in Paris and The Traveling Cocaine Circus

The Sandworm Strikes

January 6, 2020January 5, 2020 Art Edwards 0 Comments Andy Greenberg, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Mimikatz, Sandworm, Stuxnet

How a Secret U.S. Government Plan to Disable Iran’s Nuclear Capability Created the World’s Deadliest Cyberweapon

COMICS CREATORS

Drew Friedman Draws All the Presidents

December 10, 2019December 13, 2019 Ron Hart 0 Comments Abraham Lincoln, All The Presidents, Barack Obama, Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum, Donald Trump, Drawn to Presidents, Drew Friedman, interview, Jared Kushner, MAD Magazine, Mel Brooks, New Yorker Obama cover, Norman Rockwell, Ohio State University Library

The BFG Interview