![]() ![]() “It’s living while Black,” says Herb Boyd, a scholar in the film. ![]() ![]() But the story goes back a lot further than that. We see plenty of contemporary video recordings from cellphone footage and police cameras of Black people being harassed and even physically harmed by police officers during traffic stops. (The vast majority of experts are people of color, a welcome change from many documentaries of this sort.) The documentary is based on Soren’s book “Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights,” and she’s included in the film as an expert voice. Informative, infuriating and almost shockingly of the moment even when addressing issues 400 years ago, it is two hours well spent. The film is a different kind of vehicle - one that allows for a closer examination of racism in America, on the roads and off. ![]()
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