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‘Pressure’: The ‘Mean Streets’ of Brixton

Newly restored, Horace Ové’s film about a Trinidadian family in London makes a triumphant return to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

By J. Hoberman

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‘Lumumba: Death of a Prophet’: Revisiting a Mythic Figure

The 1990 documentary about Patrice Lumumba by Raoul Peck (“I Am Not Your Negro”), showing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, looks and feels newly minted.

By J. Hoberman

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The Musical Force Behind the Communal, Queer ‘Bark of Millions’

Matt Ray is a prolific songwriter and the musical nexus of New York’s alt-cabaret scene. His next project: Taylor Mac’s latest marathon performance.

By Joshua Barone

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Channeling the Pain of Chinese Immigrants, in Music and Verse

“Angel Island,” an oratorio by Huang Ruo, brings to life the stark poetry of Chinese detained on the California island in the first part of the 20th century.

By Javier C. Hernandez

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