SHOGA LENS

Being 17, the latest offering of the acclaimed French auteur, André Téchiné, at 73 is a visually gorgeous film. It tells of a lust/hate...

This coming Saturday, HBO will air a biopic of Bessie Smith, one of the highest paid Black singers of the 1920s and a foundational voice...

In 2004 a first-time filmmaker, Rodney Evans, edited and produced a narrative film, Brother to Brother , that encompassed an extended and...

One of the most unsettling features of “Kuchu” are interviews with Giles Muhame, the smirking 22 year-old editor of  Uganda’s Rolling...

“Check It” is the name of a movie, but it was first the name of a street gang of gay and trans kids of color in Washington, DC. After...

Dear White People (2014) is one of the smartest and funniest satires on screwed-up American Black/white relations ever. I can't think of...

Modern African nations are largely creations of Western imperialism. Once the colonial powers and their administrative authority...

The Green Book, a narrative feature about a lovable, casually racist Italian American lug driving the effete, supremely talented,...

The 2017 edition of Frameline, the San Francisco LGBT film festival, screened a gorgeously restored copy of Issac Julien’s Black queer...

August Wilson's early masterpiece " Ma Rainey's Black Bottom " debuted on Broadway in 1984. The play broke revolutionary ground by making...

As I entered the screening of the recently-completed documentary Major!, presented by Spectrum Queer Media and part of Oakland’s 2016...

The breakout film of 2016, Moonlight, can be described in two words: instant history. For the first time, we see a film with African...