Ava DuVernay's Oscar-week gift: a rare screening with the Broad of Haile Gerima's 'Ashes and Embers'

In 1982, the Ethiopian American director Haile Gerima released a feature-length film on the struggles of a black veteran in the wake of the Vietnam War. "Ashes and Embers" told the story of Ned Charles, a man contending with the psychological scars of conflict, both in the U.S. and abroad. But...

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