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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You can watch the whole The Urban Crisis and the New Militants series on HBOMax.

"Never at any time was I between the police and the people they were attempting to control. Or, in the case of the soliders, not control. But they knew they were doing something wrong. It was documented. There were pictures showing what was going on. I made them. And they didn't want them. They didn't want them made. That's my opinion of what happened."

Harrowing first person account from a photojournalist who was beaten for just doing his job while documenting the violence perpetrated by the state against protestors. Things never change.

🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Robert (@812filmreviews.com) wrote them in this excellent piece for @letterboxd.social

Freedom Now!: a starter pack of 24 films about the Civil Rights Movement and Black liberation • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Robert Daniels recommends 24 films that shed light on the Civil Rights Movement and the ongoing fight for Black liberation in America.