Amazon Prime Series ‘Exposes Police Brutality’ of ‘Past and Present'

Culture
Lindsay Kornick
November 23rd, 2020 7:00 AM

Once again, we’re back to discussing everyone’s least favorite TV topic: racial justice. This time, Amazon Prime offers its take on the subject through Steve McQueen's (12 Years a Slave) anthology series Small Axe. Although the first episode in the anthology, Mangrove, is based on a real event in 1970 in London, it didn’t take long for people to pretend it relates to…

 

Feckless Farrow Frets: Does Black Director Count Toward 'Diversity' Gi

Mark Finkelstein
February 28th, 2014 2:51 PM
Reading the transcript isn't enough. Roll the video, listen carefully, and at the end you'll catch Ronan Farrow's nervous little laugh as he asks an African-American guest whether, in assessing movie-industry diversity, it "matters" that Steve McQueen, the black director whose film has been nominated for an Oscar, is British. Such are the PC pitfalls once one wades into the bog of diversity…