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Screening Slave Revolt

Tim Bruno

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Thereโ€™s a line of thinking that calls out the problem of โ€œslavery moviesโ€โ€”the apparent overabundance of depictions of Black people being enslaved, the way those depictions can too comfortably glide into voyeuristic pleasure at Black suffering. ...

On Sixto Rodriguez โ€“ The Sugar Man

Mike Morgan

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Sixto Rodriguez, the Detroit singer and songwriter, died on August 8, 2023. He was 81 years of age. What follows is a short essay I wrote about him in July, 2012, the day after seeing the ...

A Small Slice of Private Life

Jenny Morgan

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For a few years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I had the good fortune to be in a relationship with Clem Maharaj, a former jazz drummer from Trinidad whose mother had taken the precaution ...