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"It took us as filmmakers to see us as leads," Van Peebles said talking about his 1991 feature film "New Jack City"

Considering that Juneteenth is now a federal holiday, it's a well-deserved day of leisure where you can watch a myriad of programming.

There is a moment in “New Jack City” when Nino Brown, a character who has made millions by selling cocaine to poor blacks, relaxes in his suburban mansion. He has his own screening room and is viewing “Scarface,” the Al Pacino movie about a drug lord. Nino brags to his girlfriend that he will never make the mistakes the guy made in the movie—but as he stands in front of the screen, the image of Scarface's dead body is projected across his own. In another movie, this moment might l...