Whiz Kids (FILM REVIEW) 06/01/10
Whiz Kids Film Review by Kam Williams Eggheads Enter National Science Bee in Inspirational Documentary Nowadays, more students drop out than graduate from inner-city public high schools all across the country, so it’s no surprise to learn the U.S. lags behinds so many other industrialized nations in terms of literacy and overall academic achievement. You [...]
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story DVD Review 05/10/10
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Damning DVD Recalls Rise and Fall of Legendary GOP Hatchet Man Harvey Leroy ‘Lee’ Atwater (1951-1991) was barely out of his teens when he burst onto the political scene in South Carolina in the early Seventies. Back then, the guitar-playing wunderkind loved the [...]
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates Book Review 05/10/10
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore Spiegel & Grau Hardcover, $25.00 252 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978-0-385-52819-1 Book Review by Kam Williams “This is the story of two boys living in Baltimore with similar histories and an identical name: Wes Moore. One of us is free and has experienced things that [...]
Lord, Save Us from Your Followers DVD Review 05/10/10
Lord, Save Us from Your Followers DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: DVD Asks Whether Christianity Has Lost Its Way How is it that Christianity has come to be so closely associated with the Religious Right and conservative political causes? This is the fundamental question being asked by director Dan Merchant in Lord, Save Us [...]
Fresh:Populist Documentary Issues Urgent Call for Healthy Food (film Review) 4/15/10
Fresh Film Review by Kam Williams Nowadays, a handful of agribusiness conglomerates control every step of the food chain, from the seed all the way to the plate, thereby determining the bulk of America’s deteriorating diet. Since most people care more about the convenience and cost of what they eat than how unhealthy the contents [...]
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book Review 4/15/10
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Crown Hardcover, $26.00 392 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978-1-4000-5217-2 Book Review by Kam Williams “Henrietta died in 1951 from a vicious case of cervical cancer… But before she died, a surgeon took samples of her tumor and put them in a Petri dish. Scientists had been trying [...]
SistahFaith: Real Stories of Pain, Truth and Triumph 04/15/10
SistahFaith: Real Stories of Pain, Truth and Triumph Edited by Marilynn Griffith Howard Books Paperback, $14.99 234 pages ISBN: 978-1-4391-5277-5 Book Review by Kam Williams “The women in this book have come a long way to meet you. Some of them write under a new name to protect their families. Others speak in their own [...]
The End of Poverty? DVD Review 5/7/10
Globalization Documentary Discusses Paradox of Poverty in Era of Unparalleled Wealth Why have so many Third World countries remained impoverished and underdeveloped even after gaining their independence from the European nations which had conquered and colonized them? This is the basic question addressed by The End of Poverty, an incendiary expose’ directed by Philippe Diaz. [...]
Pressure Cooker (DVD REVIEW) 6/1/10
DVD Chronicles Cooking Teacher’s Dedication to Her Pupils Pressure Cooker Film Review by Kam Williams Philadelphia public schoolteacher Wilma Stephenson is a throwback who reminds me of one of those no-nonsense nuns I feared in grammar school when I was a child. For, this strict disciplinarian is a veteran with 38 years of experience who [...]
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