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A documentary about the life of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been dropped from the Amazon Prime streaming service, and the online retailer says it is “temporarily out of stock” of the DVD. The film, Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words, draws from hours of interviews with Thomas himself, covering everything from his childhood in segregated Georgia, his legal education at Yale Law School, controversial Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and eventual confirmation a...

Print this article A documentary about the life of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was inexplicably removed from Amazon Prime during Black History Month. “Our distributor, who’s the one who made the deal with Amazon, has repeatedly asked them for explanations, but they haven’t given any,” said Michael Pack, the film’s director. “They have the right to pull anything from their site, and they don’t have to give an explanation. So it’s not a contract violation. But many peo...

https://www.afinalwarning.com/500106.html (Natural News) If there was just one month to honor black history, then an entire day should be dedicated to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the only black justice currently serving on the nation’s highest court. Instead of honoring Justice Clarence Thomas during Black History Month, Amazon dropped a popular PBS documentary about him. During Black History Month, Amazon decided to drop the critically acclaimed documentary, Created Equal: Clar...

Another Amazon Outrage It is black history month, and Amazon is all over it. But, it turns out, highly selectively. Mark Paoletta explains: Amazon Prime created an entire Amplify Black Voices page on its site that “feature[s] a curated collection of titles to honor Black History Month across four weekly themes (Black Love, Black Joy, Black History Makers, and Black Girl Magic).” There are scores of films available to stream, including four films available on the Amazon Prime site to stream ...

© Mark Wilson/Getty Images Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas Amazon showed it has its limits when it comes to its dedication to diversity and inclusion when it failed to continue streaming a critically acclaimed and popular documentary on the only black Supreme Court justice during Black History Month. Recently, Amazon Prime dropped Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words , an acclaimed and popular PBS documentary on Justice Clarence Thomas, making it unavailable to stream during Bla...

25 Feb 2021 Amazon showed it has its limits when it comes to its dedication to diversity and inclusion when it failed to continue streaming a critically acclaimed and popular documentary on the only black Supreme Court justice during Black History Month. Recently, Amazon Prime dropped Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words, an acclaimed and popular PBS documentary on Justice Clarence Thomas, making it unavailable to stream during Black History Month.  Thomas is our nation’s only bl...

Amazon showed it has its limits when it comes to its dedication to diversity and inclusion when it failed to continue streaming a critically acclaimed and popular documentary on the only black Supreme Court justice during Black History Month. Recently, Amazon Prime dropped Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words, an acclaimed and popular PBS documentary on Justice Clarence Thomas, making it unavailable to stream during Black History Month.  Thomas is our nation’s only black justic...

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Discussion Points: On the construction of whiteness as America’s original sin: “…the problem isn’t us, that America’s original sin isn’t slavery, or it isn’t the genocide of Native People, America’s original sin is the price of the ticket to become American and that is to become white. So, whiteness is this idea, or it contains this idea, that some lives ought to be valued more ...

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Jerald Walker is a Writing, Literature and Publishing professor at Emerson College. He is also the author of a new collection of personal essays called “How To Make A Slave And Other Essays,” which is a finalist for a National Book Award. The collection explores what it means to grow, parent, write and exist as a Black man in America. Discussion Points: On the historical context of the title of the collection, “How To Make A Slave.” “There’s one scene in his autobiography wher...