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Stamped from the Beginning movie review (2023)

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“Black inferiority is the will of God.” That’s how then-Senator Jefferson Davis defended the concept of slavery in 1860, and essentially where Williams opens his adaptation of the book by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. The organizing structure of “Stamped from the Beginning” is to connect modern issues of racial inequity to things that were born … Read more

TIFF 2023: Stamped from the Beginning, They Shot the Piano Player, Viva Varda! | Festivals & Awards

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Williams then doubles back from that opening frame, retracing how slavery shifted from a color-blind system that included Slavs, before eventually becoming a practice primarily used to put Africans in captivity.  His film compares favorably with Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro” as a work interested in the falsities that have informed the act … Read more