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Seeking change through Black cosplay

Tif von Batsy takes up space as a Black cosplayer, subverts cosplaying norms Standing in a blue striped leotard with large ethylene vinyl acetate foam wings protruding from her back and sharp pointy horns sticking up from her head is a female cosplayer wh ...

29 Dec 2021 - Adrian Michael
Olympics star Eliud Kipchoge: ‘Running is freedom’

‘Kipchoge: The Last Milestone,’ documentary details an Olympian's mission to run 26.2 miles in under two hours “ Running is a democratic space. ” So says the greatest male marathon runner of all time. Eliud Kipchoge recently became the first man in ...

15 Sep 2021 - Adrian Lobb
Opinion | What the reception to Seattle’s grittiest film can tell us about the city’s homelessness crisis

Since ‘Streetwise’ was released almost four decades ago, inequality has only grown larger Andrew Hedden is the associate director of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies and a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Washington. June marks t ...

7 Jul 2021 - Andrew Hedden
In Vietnam and Oregon, the battle continues over Agent Orange

Street Roots talks with acclaimed documentary director Alan Adelson about his latest film, ‘The People vs. Agent Orange’ A merican chemical companies made an enduring mark on the human species with the creation of Agent Orange. While no longer in use, the ...

16 Jun 2021 - Emily Green
What ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ got right about Fred Hampton

Activist Mary Scott-Boria shares her memories of Chicago’s Black Panther Party leader and the movement An Illinois Black Panther Party member in the late 1960s, Mary Scott-Boria doesn’t remember any shotgun shoot-outs with police as depicted in the new mo ...

28 Apr 2021 - Suzanne Hanney
From a stream to streaming, Kermit tells us about his great leap forward

The famous frog, now 65, stars in a new Disney+ show. He credits his friends the Muppets for his enduring success and popularity. The world’s most famous frog celebrated the 65th anniversary of his television debut earlier this year. Time flies when you’r ...

18 Aug 2020 - Aimee Knight
Spike Lee on his new movie and the Black experience in America

In the newly released Netflix film, 'Da 5 Bloods,' Lee explores elements of US history through the eyes of four Black Vietnam veterans Two Black men killed by the state 250 years apart. March 5, 1770, Boston: Eight British soldiers fire into a g ...

16 Jun 2020 - Steven MacKenzie
The man winning the war on toxic waste

Rob Bilott secured huge payouts after taking on chemical giant DuPont over pollution — a fight that has been made into ‘Dark Waters,' a film starring Mark Ruffalo Rob Bilott is not a man who’s quick to anger — even after more than 20 years fighting. ...

28 Feb 2020 - Simon Ward
A twisted tale of authoritarianism, Orwell, Ukraine, fake news and Trump

‘Mr. Jones’ screenwriter Andrea Chalupa has family ties to Ukraine stretching from the 1930s famine to the Trump impeachment — with ‘Animal Farm’ and Soviet propaganda sprinkled in Ukraine being used as a pawn between super states will come as no surprise ...

7 Feb 2020 - Steven MacKenzie
Honeyland: Macedonian film offers stark lesson about our pillaging of the Earth

On average, the world consumes enough resources for 1.5 planets, and yet few people are aware of how drastic a situation that is People are waking up every morning unaware that the world economy consumes, on average, enough resources for 1.5 planets. That ...

31 Jan 2020 - Maja Ravanska