The following table of contents features all articles published during Black Writers Week 2022 (June 19th through June 26th), arranged in the following categories: intros, features, interviews, reviews, republished features and republished reviews. —The Editors


INTROS

Meet the Guest Editors of Black Writers Week 2022 by Chaz Ebert

Preview: Black Writers Week 2022 Kicks off on Juneteenth, Runs Through Sunday, June 26th by The Editors

An Introduction to Black Writers Week 2022 by Chaz Ebert

Meet the Writers of Black Writers Week 2022 by Chaz Ebert

FEATURES

15 African-American Filmmakers and Roger Ebert’s Birthday Retrospective Reviews by Chaz Ebert

The Antagonism of Blackness in Netflix’s Stranger Things by Kaiya Shunyata

Black Representation in Youth Dramas – Degrassi Case Study by Jewel Ifeguni

Common Grounds and Various Teas by Sherin Nicole

Considering Easy To Get: World War II Army Training Films, Segregation, Black Uplift and VD by Sergio Mims

Film Festivals as High Impact Learning by Dr. Eric Pierson

The Great Adventure of Raising a Family in Another Country by André Hammel

How Microaggressions Toward Black Journalists Continue to Hold Everyone Back by Carla Renata

How to Get Your Independent Film to a Wider Audience by Ife Olatunji

How We Can Use Technology to Connect with the World by Niani Scott

I Think I Made a Bad Movie by Brandon Towns

Jason Delane Lee and Yvonne Huff Lee on Race, Adoption and Identity by Chaz Ebert

The Legacy of Gen-X Black Filmmakers by Brandon David Wilson

A New Class Of Filmmakers: ABFF and HBO Short Film Award Finalists Bring Their Stories To Life by Aramide Tinubu

Silver Screen Approved: The Top 5 Actors from Hip-Hop by Mack Bates

Subscribe to the Black Women Directors Newsletter by Danielle Scruggs

TV’s Rural Craze & The Civil Rights Movement by Bijan Bayne

Tyler Perry Loves Black Women by Shawn Edwards

Video: That’s That On That Spotlights Moms Mabley and Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds by Taj Rani

INTERVIEWS

His Life Mattered: Director Nadia Hallgren and Attorney Ben Crump on CIVIL by Chaz Ebert

I Have to Love My Characters: Peter Strickland on Flux Gourmet by Robert Daniels

The Work of Joy: Chanté Adams and Will Graham on A League of Their Own by Aramide Tinubu

REVIEWS 

Apples by Jourdain Searles 

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe by Robert Daniels

Beba by Niani Scott

The Black Phone by Peyton Robinson

Citizen Ashe by Odie Henderson

Elvis by Robert Daniels

Facing Nolan by Brandon Towns

Flux Gourmet by Craig D. Lindsey

FX’s The Bear Feels Like a New Chicago Classic by Shelli Nicole

Loot Wastes the Talents of Maya Rudolph by David Moses

The Man from Toronto by Odie Henderson

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On by Carla Renata

Mind Over Murder by Robert Daniels

Money Heist: Korea Pulls Off a Daring TV Caper by Reginald Ponder

Rise by Aramide Tinubu 

REPUBLISHED FEATURES

Jason and Yvonne Lee’s Lagralane Spirits Podcast Welcomes Chaz Ebert and Brenda Robinson by The Editors

The New Black Film Rebellion by JM Mutore

Ring the Alarm: The State of Black Kid Joy and What’s at Stake by Doreen Spicer-Dannelly

Whose Gaze: A Roundtable of Black Film Critics at the Movies by The Editors

REPUBLISHED REVIEWS

Atlanta Finally Returns for Season 3, Bolder Than Ever by Ciara Wardlow

Attica by Odie Henderson

CIVIL by Odie Henderson

Colin in Black and White by Ciara Wardlow

A Crime on the Bayou by Steven Boone

Dear White People by Steven Boone 

Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street by Robert Daniels

Lightyear by Odie Henderson

Morris from America by Angelica Jade Bastién

Neptune Frost by Robert Daniels

Passing by Odie Henderson

Self Made: Inspired by the Life of CJ Walker by Whitney Spencer

Women of the Movement by Ciara Wardlow

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