Cory Booker – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

WHY IS WE AMERICANS? – Review by Diane Carson

February 1, 2022February 4, 2022 Diane Carson Amina Baraka, Amiri Baraka, Cory Booker, documentaries, LeRoi Jones, Mayor of Newark, Ras J. Baraka, udi aloni, Why Is We Americans?

The documentary Why Is We Americans? asks critical questions related to Black identity, specifically that of the socially activist and artistic Baraka family of Newark, New Jersey. Through a fast-paced, energetic delivery, director Udi Aloni interweaves archival footage and photographs from the 1960s with a diverse selection of contemporary interviews, headlined by poet Amiri Baraka and matriarch Amina Baraka,

Movie of the Week Reviews

AWFJ Movie of the Week, January 13 – January 20, 2017: 13TH

January 8, 2017June 2, 2020 Dorothy Woodend 0 Comments 13th, Angela Davis, Ava DuVernay, Baz Dreisinger, candice frederick, Cory Booker, Craig DeRoche, David Dinkins, Dolores Canales, Gina Clayton, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Jelani Cobb, Kevin Gannon, Lisa Graves, liz whittemore, Malkia Cyril, Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Neil Minow, Newt Gingrich, Pam Grady, thelma adams, Van Jones

Ava DuVernay’s documentary The 13th, using the 13th Amendment as a point of departure for a revealing investigation of mass incarceration in the US, is a history lesson, cinema essay and cogent, irrefutable indictment of economic and cultural policies that are the enduring legacy of slavery. The 13th was the first nonfiction film to open the New York Film Festival. It has garnered numerous awards and is shortlisted for an Academy Award. AWFJ’s Movie of the Week is The 13th, playing at select theaters and on Netflix. Read on…