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The Last Black Man in San Francisco Remembers the Heart of the City
Reading the script for The Last Black Man in San Francisco was like experiencing an earthquake, actor Johnathan Majors says. Strange at first, even surreal. “The whole ground is shifting. If you look at it…it actually seems impossible,” Majors tells me over the phone. “At the end of the script. It was like, things have…
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On the 1-Year Anniversary of BBQ Becky, Oakland’s 510 Day Proves There’s Still Plenty of Work to Be Done
With the soul of the city at stake, there’s a civil war brewing in Oakland, Calif. Movies like Blindspotting and the Boots Riley-helmed Sorry to Bother You gave us a glimpse into this escalating feud, but there’s no better example of the conflict raging than the infamous BBQ Becky debacle, which occurred almost a year…