Exclusive: MSNBC Films has unveiled its spring and summer slate including a Dave Eggers documentary about book-banning.
The news network is launching four feature and short documentaries in its Sunday night slot between April and July.
This includes a number of films for its The Turning Point series, which kicked off in 2022 with a Trevor Noah-produced series.
Eggers’ To Be Destroyed, which will launch on July 21, follows the A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius author as he embarks on a journey to Rapid City, South Dakota in the aftermath of his book’s controversial ban by the local school board. As Eggers navigates this landscape of censorship and resistance, viewers will learn how these ideas resonate far beyond the borders of Rapid City.
The film is directed by Arthur Bradford and will be the ninth installment of The Turning Point documentary series.
The seventh installment of the series is...
The news network is launching four feature and short documentaries in its Sunday night slot between April and July.
This includes a number of films for its The Turning Point series, which kicked off in 2022 with a Trevor Noah-produced series.
Eggers’ To Be Destroyed, which will launch on July 21, follows the A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius author as he embarks on a journey to Rapid City, South Dakota in the aftermath of his book’s controversial ban by the local school board. As Eggers navigates this landscape of censorship and resistance, viewers will learn how these ideas resonate far beyond the borders of Rapid City.
The film is directed by Arthur Bradford and will be the ninth installment of The Turning Point documentary series.
The seventh installment of the series is...
- 3/21/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Twenty years ago, Arian Simone was a college student in Tallahassee, Florida, trying to scrape together money for a small mall-based boutique called Fabulous. “I started to notice that a lot of investors didn’t look like me,” Simone, a Black woman, tells Rolling Stone. “I made a promise to myself to not be concerned about the investor landscape, because one day I was going to be the business investor that I had been looking for.”
Two decades later, the disparity Simone recognized back then persists: According McKinsey and Company,...
Two decades later, the disparity Simone recognized back then persists: According McKinsey and Company,...
- 8/19/2023
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
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