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Why Is We Americans?
Directed by
Ayana Stafford-Morris
,
Udi Aloni
NR
2020
1h 41m
Documentary
7.2
86%
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The story focuses on Newark's Baraka family and its involvement in social activism, poetry, music, art and politics.
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Cast of Why Is We Americans?
Lauryn Hill
Self / Producer
Maya Angelou
Self
Nina Simone
Self
Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage)
Roxanne Shanté
Self
Cory Booker
Self
Ayana Stafford-Morris
Director
Udi Aloni
Director / Writer / Producer
Oren Moverman
Producer
Why Is We Americans? Ratings & Reviews
KDHX (St. Louis)
Diane Carson
An essential historical survey.
Los Angeles Times
Sarah-Tai Black
If Morris and Aloni's film is unfocused and weak in its patterning and construction, it is equally an important record of a living history that refuses to mythologize itself.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
This documentary examines several decades of multigenerational African American art-making and activism in the family whose late patriarch was Amiri Baraka aka LeRoi Jones.
AWFJ.org
Valerie Kalfrin
Why Is We Americans? packs a lot into 102 minutes, feeling both overstuffed and rushed given its taste of the Baraka familys rich and wide-ranging history. Yet it also brims with black pride and passion for driving social change through the arts.
Film Threat
Sabina Dana Plasse
Udi Aloni offers education and insight into amazing people, motivating you to learn more about them.
New York Times
Devika Girish
It's a story that spans past and present, arts and politics, and kin and country - and the movie, with its haphazard editing, struggles to contain it all.
Easy Reader (California)
Neely Swanson
I recommend this film because it brings a lens onto the historical aspects of the Baraka family. I wish they had focused on the original subject, the mayoral race of Ras Barak.
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