Reviews of She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry (2014), Mary Dore’s detailed chronicle of the women’s movement playing at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema + Shola Lynch’s Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed (2003) on DVD from Fox.
Dore’s documentary is packed with great interviews of arguably forgotten figures in modern social history who proved ordinary people could manifest change, but the degree of rebellion, protest, grand public gatherings, brazen statements…
The divisive issues of 1972 – the Vietnam War, Nixon’s re-election, poverty in America’s lower income neighborhoods – were key factors in motivating Shirley Chisholm to take a chance at the top job in America…
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