Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters is a passionate, beautifully maximalist critique of capitalism and an ode to community. Though the filmmaker, musician, and activist has only released two feature films in his career, he has already built a strong, unique style: combining activism with eccentricity. But what is a booster? As Boots Riley’s band The Coup explains in their 2006 song “I Love Boosters”, “A booster is a person who jacks from the retail and sells it in the hood for dirt-cheap resale”...

As action cinema searches for its next generation of leading men, Kojo Attah is passionately carving a space within the genre through a commitment to thoroughly becoming his characters, and a desire to transform Black representation. Though Kojo Attah has been interested in the dramatic arts nearly all his life, growing up, he never truly believed the industry was directly accessible to him. Even after discovering a drama school near where he lived, the cost alone made the profession feel...