CBC stalwart Amanda Parris travelled and listened to collect intel on the ways Blackness has changed as a lived concept. Larry Wilmore, Bolu Babalola, Gina Yashere, and Mwazulu Diyabanza join Parris in provocative discussions of topics including reparations for slavery, the crisis in Black maternal …
Ambition’s Price, and Being Elsewhere.
By Anne Brodie Writer-director Kaouther Ben Hania's innovative style brings to vivid, unforgettable life Four Daughters, a quasi-documentary about a family of Tunisian women mourning the disappearance of the eldest two daughters who were "devoured by wolves". Ben Hania as the real mother Olfa …
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Finding Motivation in The Polar Vortex
As the winter chill sets records across Canada, many of us are eagerly awaiting spring and looking for ways to maintain our New Year's momentum. While I can't bring an early spring (much as I'd like to!), I can offer a healthy dose of motivation through this week's show. Packed with inspiring …
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Stories of Women, Grifters, Heroes and Heroines, Love, Hope and Healing.
By Anne Brodie Another elegant, powerful, intelligent, and moving film from Ava DuVernay, whose inspired films are always a joy. Origin, the latest film DuVernay wrote and directed follows Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor in a remarkable performance) whose …
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Cush Jumbo and Peter Capaldi’s New Series Criminal Record a Searing Expose of Bad Seed Detectives
Cush Jumbo is June, a brilliant rising Detective Inspector in a London Constabulary targeted by her white male superiors who stop at nothing to undercut her work. Believing they're inspired by racism and misogyny she digs down and finds evidence of a serious ethical breach of their office a decade …