In the name of academic improvement, lower expectations for minorities are institutitonalized. Well-meaning bigotry is still bigotry. Let’s backtrack. Florida and Virginia are two of more than 30 states who were granted waivers to the federal No Child Left Behind program. As it stood, No Child Left Behind — President George W. Bush’s signature education [...]

THE BLACK ROCK (Dir. Kevin Epps, US 2009, 60m) By Kevin Kunze The Black Rock tells the untold story about the black inmates of Alcatraz and their struggle to survive in a primarily white maximum-security prison. Superbly directed by local filmmaker and activist, Kevin Epps (Straight Outta Hunters Point), the film examines the lives of [...]