“Harlem was Heaven to us. It was a place where I was safe, happy, and made lifelong friends... to us, Harlem was Camelot.” -Festival attendee

The Harlem Cultural Festival in the Summer of 1969. A free concert attended by over 300,000 people.

The great Stevie Wonder takes the stage on a rainy afternoon. After singing a while

Be yourself. The world will adjust (Manabi Bandyopadhyay, professor and first transgender person in India to complete their Doctorate of Philosophy

Accepting change. Believing in someone. Recognizing identity. This is the way it should always have been, but now is the time. We must learn to live in an age of acceptance.

“Draw with Me” is a new documentary short

"As far as my eyes can see / There are shadows approaching me” These lines from The Alan Parsons Project’s song “Old and Wise” resonates with anyone over the age of sixty. The winter of our lives comes for us all. It is inevitable. We all get old. We can live our lives in preparation for our final years, but no one truly knows how we will handle our “final stretch.” But don’t we all deserve to be happy? To ride out those final years with some sort of peace.

“We are two different creatures, right? You like the sound of crickets and I like the rattle of the taxis. You blossom in the sun and me, I come into my own under grey skies.”

It’s no longer a secret that Woody Allen owns New York, is it? With a passion that fuels his creativity, Allen has turned the city into a canvas that transcends time and space.  

And when he examines the lives

Regrets. The characters in Steven Soderbergh’s latest film have had a few.

Writer Deborah Eisenberg’s first screenplay “Let Them All Talk” is smart and literate and a welcome cinematic character study of people behaving like human beings.

Meryl Streep dives into one of her best roles in years playing Alice, an award-winning author who is up for yet another one

Alessandro and Arturo (Edoardo Leo and Stefano Accorsi, respectively) are a couple who face a new challenge when their dear friend Annamaria (Jasmine Trinca) comes to their doorstep with her two children in tow. Annamaria wants to leave her kids with Alessandro and Arturo while she goes into the hospital for some serious tests. As the kids move in and the two men deal with the children, truths both good and bad are revealed

2020, what a strange year it was. While movie theaters closed in late March, streaming platforms and On-Demand services made many films available to audiences. This allowed titles that should have been released in theaters to find their way to viewers without them having to wait. The plus being that, many low-budget films could compete with the bigger studio fare on a more even ground. Little films that could were given a bigger chance, perhaps the only silver lining from theaters being closed.