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Movie review: 'If Beale Street Could Talk' says a lot about love and racial injustice

When James Baldwin’s lovely, lacerating “If Beale Street Could Talk” was published, it was in the spring of 1974. That was 44 years ago. Forty-four years! Think about that; then see Barry Jenkins’ Oscar-worthy adaptation and prepare to despair over the lack of change in a criminal justice system that still targets – yes, TARGETS – young black men for incarceration.

 

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