The Indypendent
Reviews
“La Edad de Agua” Reveals the Price of Water
A group of activists—and grieving mothers—fights to understand the truth about where their water supply went, and how it may have become deadly.
Rejecting the Southernification of MLK
Historian Jeanne Theoharis was in Los Angeles, scouring old copies of Black newspapers for coverage of the city’s Civil…
The Singular Victim of the Atomic Bomb: Oppenheimer Sanitizes History
Christopher Nolan’s new film, Oppenheimer, successfully dramatizes a Pulitzer-Prize winning biography but downplays the destruction unleashed by its protagonist.
It’s a strange time to be stepping outside in New York City. There’s the still-looming pandemic, the string of…
Alice Neel: Painting People Left Out of the Picture
In a world that viewed portrait painting as an affectation of the rich, Alice Neel (1900-1984) believed all people…
Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action that Changed America By Writers for the 99% OR Books,…
Diary of an Awkward Black Girl
When I was a child, my mother and the rest of my family took great pains to ensure that…
Sanctioned Evil: A Review of “Standard Operating Procedure”
Illustration by Rusty Zimmerman A Review of Standard Operating Procedure, directed by Errol Morris, Participant Productions 2008 Iraq, the…
From Childhood War to Hip-Hop: A Review of “War Child”
A Review of War Child, directed by C. Karim Chrobog, Discover, 2008 A must-see at this year’s Tribeca Film…