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A still from the film Nickel Boys (2024). A black and white close-up of a person with only his eyes visible, his face is whited out.

Against Violent Ends: An Invocation To Expand Black Speculative Imagination

by Nicole G. Young

Four triangles. Two of them, from the side, have pink and red hues facing each other, and the other two, from the top and bottom, have colorful rainbows that also face each other.

Portals and Expansions: Black Film Distribution

by Maya S. Cade

Three Palestinian girls hold pink point-and-shoot cameras directly at the person taking their photograph. Two of them are wearing colorful striped shirts.

Gaza, 5:45 a.m.

by Eman Mohammed

Autumn Durald Arkapaw is holding a film camera.

In Focus: Autumn Durald Arkapaw

by Autumn Durald Arkapaw

Eight black chairs with white bubble backgrounds and one white chair with a black bubble background are arranged in rows of three. The one in the middle of the page is the white chair and it is upside down.

My Time as a Hollywood DEI Failure

by Jenny Yang

Illustration of a man in all black attire holding a candle. He is standing on water with flowers bordering the sides and black stars above him.

Ryan Coogler’s Communions with the Dead

by Kambole Campbell

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