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An Interview with Rico Speight

As “Trump-erialism” unleashes the dogs of war on the Third World, the fiery prophet of anti-colonial revolt is back, just in the nick of time. Director Rico Speight’s Rediscovering Fanon is a rabblerousing, thought-provoking documentary that pays tribute to the centennial of the 1925 birth of the author of The Wretched of the Earth, which […]

Ed Rampell was named after legendary CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow because of his TV exposes of Senator Joe McCarthy. Rampell majored in Cinema at Manhattan’s Hunter College and is an L.A.-based film historian/critic who co-organized the 2017 70th anniversary Blacklist remembrance at the Writers Guild theater in Beverly Hills and was a moderator at 2019’s “Blacklist Exiles in Mexico” filmfest and conference at the San Francisco Art Institute. Rampell co-presented “The Hollywood Ten at 75” film series at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and is the author of Progressive Hollywood, A People’s Film History of the United States and co-author of The Hawaii Movie and Television Book.    

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