PBS To Rebroadcast Its Remarkable 'Latin Music USA' Series From 2009
AltLatino Extra presents a Q&A with the co-creator and Supervising Producer of the seminal PBS music documentary series, Latin Music USA.
Television
'Dear White People' Creator Calls The Netflix Series 'A Conversation Starter'
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Justin Simien, the creator and writer of Dear White People, a film-turned-Netflix series about being black at a mostly white elite college.
This Week In Race: Fox Sued, Schools Resegregate, Shea Moisture Gets Thirsty
A racial discrimination suit is filed against Fox. Is an Alabama school district getting around integration? Shea Moisture apologizes for a commercial. And, there's a new philanthropist in town.
This Time, 'Dear White People' Is Not So Much About Them
Netflix's hit show, with its incessant and incisive look at race at a fictional Ivy League college, doesn't really focus much on white people at all.
'Handmaid's Tale' Wants You To Feel Like 'This Could Happen Here'
Elisabeth Moss and Samira Wiley star in Hulu's TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1985 dystopian novel — in which fertile women become reproductive surrogates for powerful men and their barren wives.
Hulu's 'Handmaid's Tale' Delivers A Timely And Feminist Message
A new 10-part adaptation of Margaret Atwood's 1986 novel stars Elisabeth Moss as a woman living in a totalitarian state. Critic David Bianculli says the miniseries depicts a bleak and haunting future.
'Veep' Executive Producer On Making A Show About The 'Craven Desire For Power'
The HBO series is now in its sixth season. Producer Frank Rich also writes a column for New York magazine about the intersection of politics and popular culture.
Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale' Is Compelling — And Chilling
The adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian 1985 novel is a horror show revealed in slow motion — and the true horror of its brutal, patriarchal future theocracy is how possible it seems today.
5 Films Look At The Los Angeles Riots From (Almost) Every Angle
The documentaries attempt to complete the picture of what transpired in LA in 1992 after Rodney King was beaten by police, showing how the riots affected a wide swath of Angelenos.
The Good And Goofy 'Great News' Comes To NBC
A new NBC comedy has a lot of 30 Rock DNA, and it shows. While it's uneven at first, viewers who stick with it will get a satisfying blast of very silly jokes.