Recalibrate the media, reconstruct the system, reimagine the police: pointing the way through movies (and a podcast and a web-series)

With trust in the media, in institutions, in each other at a depressing low, it’s important to know how we got here – and how to flip the script. Which is why I’ve compiled an eclectic “guide” to movies and more that have helped me make sense of our current moment, one in which the calculatedly-composed cultural narratives surrounding race, reporting, and policing have collided in the caught-on-camera murder of yet another unarmed African-American man. (And since racism should never be the burden of black and brown folks – it’s up to the people who built the system of inequality to participate in its dismantlement! – my following recommendations are also heavy on media-makers actively getting their own white hands dirty to right some deeply entrenched wrongs.)

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