In the 1980s, there were only 63 Black films by, for, or about Black Americans. But in the 1990s, that number quadrupled, with 220 Black films making their way to cinema screens nationwide. What sparked this “Black New Wave?” Who blazed this path for contemporaries like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Jordan Peele? And how did these films transform American culture as a whole? Presenting The Class of 1989, a new limited-run series from pop culture critics Len Webb and Vincent Williams, hosts ...
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Set in the year 2149, the human race has ventured out into the stars where they have encountered The Sovereign; a galactic kingdom encompassing thousands of planets and hundreds of species. However they did not find it a warm welcome. Due to their violent and greedy history, humanity is mistrusted and looked upon with disdain, and so survive on the lowest fringes of society. On the distant slum world of Orienna Four, a human girl named Kora is looking for a way to get out of this moon sized purgatory, an escape…an adventure! And so she signs up to join the crew of a small mercenary ship called The Renegade. With a disconcerting amount of gunfire directed towards her, a new arch-enemy by proxy, an heirloom with more importance than anyone realises, and some strange new crewmates, Kora discovers she is stronger than she ever imagined, and a universe of trouble awaiting her.
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Set in the year 2149, the human race has ventured out into the stars where they have encountered The Sovereign; a galactic kingdom encompassing thousands of planets and hundreds of species. However they did not find it a warm welcome. Due to their violent and greedy history, humanity is mistrusted and looked upon with disdain, and so survive on the lowest fringes of society. On the distant slum world of Orienna Four, a human girl named Kora is looking for a way to get out of this moon sized purgatory, an escape…an adventure! And so she signs up to join the crew of a small mercenary ship called The Renegade. With a disconcerting amount of gunfire directed towards her, a new arch-enemy by proxy, an heirloom with more importance than anyone realises, and some strange new crewmates, Kora discovers she is stronger than she ever imagined, and a universe of trouble awaiting her.
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