‘Killing Castro,’ the debut feature from Eif Rivera, delves into an interesting moment in history when Fidel Castro (Diego Boneta) and Malcolm X (Kendrick Sampson) met at the historic Hotel Theresa in Harlem.
Resilience and a fighting spirit flow in the veins of someone like Ilyasah Shabazz or her family. Her grandparents were dedicated to the Marcus Garvey cause and targeted by the Black Legion for doing so. And her human-rights-activist parents, well, their names are Dr. Betty Shabazz and Malcolm X.
Ryan Coogler takes the time out of his day to discuss his dad taking him to see movies as a kid, watching Spike Lee classics, and how it felt seeing a powerful black man on screen for the first time.