Category: Weekly Reviews

With COP26 (October 31-November 12, 2021) happening in a short while, Jack Harries set off across England to interview various climate activists, scientists and, most importantly, people who have been hit the hardest with the effects of climate change. His 12-episode docu-series highlights what the climate crisis is and the effects of farming, air pollution,…

Featuring a variety of influencers, celebrities, singer-songwriters and even a former US president, Dear Earth is a letter to Mother Earth, celebrating her for everything she has done for humanity, while highlighting the major issues we NEED to fix as fast and as soon as we can. This documentary explains what climate change is and…

Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head is a hopeful song by BJ Thomas. He sings about the rain falling, but instead of sitting there doing nothing, he goes to fix it and doesn’t let it bring him down. This sends a message of hope, which is especially important in times like these. As he sings,…

Coyote Sunrise hasn’t been home in five whole years, ever since her mom and sisters died in a car crash and she and her dad have been living cross country on an old school bus. When Coyote hears that they plan to demolish the park where her mom, two sisters and her buried their memory…

Ada has never been able to be social because her mother is ashamed of Ada’s twisted foot, which makes it a struggle for Ada to even walk. Jamie, Ada’s little brother is sent away from London to escape the looming war and Ada takes the opportunity to join him. The two find a kind woman…

Cece used to go to a school for the deaf, other kids like her, but now…now she is going to a school where her hearing aids set her apart from everyone else. What Cece really wants is a friend, but who wants to be friends with someone who wears a giant hearing aid strapped to…

Phiona Mutesi was following her brother, while searching for food one day, when she met Robert Katende. Her brother was sneaking away to play a game on a checkered board. Phiona was intrigued and would end up joining her brother to see what Robert had to teach about chess. Phiona and the others would travel…

by Leeya King in the Wilderness I used to see documentaries as a two-hour lecture on a subject, like a factual narration of a subject rather than a medium able to give the big picture through beautiful and tragic anecdotes. However, when watching King in the Wilderness, I realized documentaries are not always boring or…

It Began with a Revolution “…to reach the glorious heights of the past, history must be faced. Everything that is faced cannot be changed, but nothing can be changed unless it is faced.” -Mr. Keni Hines, “A Global History of Blacks in the 19th Century: Detailed Chronologically from 1800 to 1899” Mr. Kennith “Keni” Hines…

Octavia E. Butler was one of the first Black women to write science fiction. Her novels weave together history, sci-fi, and more. Kindred, one of her first novels, originally published in 1979, is a brilliantly put-together book. Though it was written more than 40 years ago, the topics in the novel are still relevant today.…