The Counter Canon
protractaExpanding film discourse beyond the traditional canon, highlighting films by historically overlooked and underrepresented directors.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 15 | Founded | 2 months ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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we're discussing gordon parks IRL
Gordon Parks
Honored to announce our first in-person event and institutional partnership at The Center for Art and Advocacy with a tour of their current exhibition A Language We Share: Beverly Price and Gordon Parks led by Co-Director of P...
what is the future?
BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions (2025)
The first American film I remember watching growing up, I must embarrassingly admit, was The Blind Side from 2009 starring Sandra Bullock. I must’ve watched it over 500 times. What a foul introduction to...
james baldwin x black girl (& vote for next week)
Read this chapter from Notes of a Native Son (1955) and watch Black Girl (1966).
Centered around the questions: What is the West’s unfulfilled promise? What happens to black people when they carry unexpressed rage?
Thanks for reading The...
what is hope?
The Watermelon Woman (1996)
The first time I listened to Negro Swan, I was grieving. One of my close friends recommended it after I gave him the difficult news that my uncle had died. I don’t remember what I thought of it at the time, grie...
fela kuti meets blknws: terms and conditions (& vote for next film)
If you haven’t come to a discussion yet this is the ONE to join.
Centered around the questions: What are the traits of an afrofuturist? How do we create black and diasporic futures?
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