By NINA METZ CHICAGO TRIBUNE NOV 04, 2021 AT 6:02 AM In July of this year, California-based political fundraiser Ed Buck was convicted on charges that he supplied methamphetamine that killed two men, Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean, during separate encounters at his home. Reporting on the verdict, the Los Angeles Times described it as a “gruesome case of an older white man using his power and money to exploit the poverty and drug addiction of younger Black men (in which) the jury found Buck...

Andrew Schneider, Screen Magazine October 5, 2021 “Together Again.” That’s the goal as many film festivals and small businesses reopen around the country and welcome people back through their doors. And it’s also the theme for one of the longest running Black LGBTQ/SGL film festivals in the world. The Black Alphabet Film Festival (BAFF) will be returning to Chicago this November, November 5-7, 2021 at the University of Chicago’s Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. BAFF was created in...

BURDEN tells the story of Bennett Lewis; a highly successful and highly educated family man who in spite of his success still has to deal with the perils of being a Black man in America.