At PAFF: Nate Parker's 'American Skin' plus Angela Davis – People's World
Tony Espinosa as Kajani Jefferson in “American Skin” The undaunted 29th Pan African Film Festival kicked off on the last day of Black History Month and runs through March 14. I am a big fan of the work by actor/director/writer Nate Parker, which powerfully expresses Black consciousness and militancy in movies such as 2012’s Red Tails about the heroic Tuskegee Airmen who were antifascists before Antifa; 2007’s fact-based The Great Debaters, where Denzel Washington played a suspected Communist and proved Blacks can excel academically; and 2016’s The Birth of a Nation, which Parker d...
Source: peoplesworld.org