Just Call Me Dia

Feb 10
Feb 20

Bilal’s Stand. 

Mar 2

White Wash, the documentary, is a film exploring the complexity of race in America through the eyes of the ocean. Examining the history of “black consciousness” as it triumphs and evolves into the minds of black surfers, we learn the power of transcending race as a constructive phenomenon. 

Mar 4

Ghetto Physics 

“This isn’t Chicken Soup for the Soul. It’s a bitch slap for the slumbering.”

An in-your-face wake-up call,GhettoPhysics shows how the game of life is played—and it’s all the same game! From the corner offices of Wall Street to the inner sanctums of world governments, from the red light districts in the ghettos to the living rooms behind the white-picket fences on Main Street, game is happening. And if you don’t know it, the game is going to roll right over you.

Apr 1

Page One. 

A year at the New York Times. 

Jun 19

Teachers. Educators. Leaders. 

1 Love is an exciting, comprehensive documentary about the mingling of cultural and social influences that made basketball what it is today. Appropriate credit goes to the game’s official inventor, Canada’s 19th-century physical education instructor, Dr. James Naismith. But filmmaker Leon Gast (When We Were Kings) also explores the YMCA’s early role as a “pipeline for spreading basketball over the world,” as well as the importance of the sport to New York’s Jewish immigrant communities (players often had no ball, using wadded-up newspaper instead) in the early 20th century. The film pays tribute to the old Knickerbockers and Philadelphia Warriors legends, among others, who comprise today’s coffee-klatch South Florida Basketball Fraternity. It also digs deep into the impact of Harlem’s early precision players (and, by extension, today’s pro-am street tournaments in the same neighborhoods) on the game’s vitality and international popularity. Interviewees include Joe Hammond, the legend that got away from the NBA. —Tom Keogh
Jun 19

1 Love is an exciting, comprehensive documentary about the mingling of cultural and social influences that made basketball what it is today. Appropriate credit goes to the game’s official inventor, Canada’s 19th-century physical education instructor, Dr. James Naismith. But filmmaker Leon Gast (When We Were Kings) also explores the YMCA’s early role as a “pipeline for spreading basketball over the world,” as well as the importance of the sport to New York’s Jewish immigrant communities (players often had no ball, using wadded-up newspaper instead) in the early 20th century. The film pays tribute to the old Knickerbockers and Philadelphia Warriors legends, among others, who comprise today’s coffee-klatch South Florida Basketball Fraternity. It also digs deep into the impact of Harlem’s early precision players (and, by extension, today’s pro-am street tournaments in the same neighborhoods) on the game’s vitality and international popularity. Interviewees include Joe Hammond, the legend that got away from the NBA. —Tom Keogh

Jul 14

The Network (1976)