Ernest Hardy

A year and a half ago, as word quickly circulated via radio and the Internet that Dave Chappelle was putting together a concert in Brooklyn, and that it would feature alternative-neo-indie Negro artists like the Roots, Erykah Badu, Dead Prez, Jill Scott, Common, Mos Def, Kanye West — and maybe......

By contrasting the historical backdrop to a series of modern horrors, Hubert Sauper’s documentary Darwin’s Nightmare proves a cautionary tale of human arrogance and folly. Sometime in the 1960s, an unknown party dumped a bucketful of Nile perch in Africa’s Lake Victoria, the world’s second largest freshwater lake, the source......

This year’s Pan African Film & Arts Festival boasts one of the strongest programming slates in the event’s recent history, due in large part to the wealth of documentaries on deck — a large number of which concern themselves with issues affecting black artists and artistry around the world, from......