How Black Bodies Liberated the Movies of 2016

Back in January of this year, in the middle of the viral #OscarsSoWhite fiasco and an increasingly heated national discussion on race in America, a movie premiered at Sundance that ended up becoming the cause célèbre of the festival. Telling the story of slave rebellion leader Nat Turner, writer-director-star Nate Parker's

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