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Colin Kaepernick

Reviews 

KAEPERNICK & AMERICA – Review by Martha K Baker

Martha K. Baker , , , ,

In 2017, San Francisco Forty-niners quarterback Colin Kaepernick took a knee at a football game during the national anthem. Others stood. Kaepernick was not protesting the flag as simple-minded people decided: he was protesting police brutality in America. The directors of”Kaepernick & America show the burning of a jersey — No. 7, Kaepernick’s number. And they record the rapture of the people in his hometown when he became a professional football player. Folks at the local restaurant named a sandwich for him. They erased it from the menu after he protested.

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Festivals Reviews 

TICKTOK, BOOM. (SXSW) – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

Valerie Kalfrin , , , , , ,

With more than 2 billion users—a significant chunk of them under 25—TikTok has become an app that launches careers, earns exponential income, and scares the heck out of privacy advocates, competitors, and even its users. The documentary TikTok, Boom. tackles almost too much in an hour and 37 minutes. Yet even where it doesn’t probe deeply, the film advocates for examining this platform that carries more dangers than its dance and lip-synch videos indicate.

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