Opinion: The U.N. Named the Crime Yet Missed the Claim

On March 25, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a Ghana-led resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans the “gravest crime against humanity.” The vote mattered. It named the crime plainly and placed it where it belongs: among history’s great atrocities. But even in that moment of clarity, an older pattern held. The crime was named.

https://theliterarypurveyor.com/2026/04/10/opinion-the-u-n-named-the-crime-yet-missed-the-claim/

Read Ivory Elizabeth's latest move review, Eleanor the Great: An Intimate Look at Life and Resilience.

https://theliterarypurveyor.com/2026/03/19/tiff-review-an-intimate-portrait-of-resilience-eleanor-the-great/

At a packed Sundance panel of Black women directors, the conversation turned to audience, lineage, and the elasticity of belonging. Afterward, an exchange about ADOSAF and diaspora sharpened the question: Who gets to define home — and under what terms?

New essay: Home, as Arrangement
Now live at The Literary Purveyor.

#Sundance #BlackCinema #Diaspora #BlackWomenDirectors #CulturalCriticism #literarypurveyor

https://theliterarypurveyor.com/2026/03/02/home-as-arrangement-on-black-women-directors-lineage-and-the-global-stage-at-sundance/

Once the undisputed epicenter of independent film, Sundance now faces a defining moment. As the festival prepares to leave Park City and move into a post–Robert Redford era, the question isn’t what Sundance was—but what it’s becoming.

https://theliterarypurveyor.com/2026/01/26/sundance-crossroads/

n this powerful nonfiction piece, Chelle A. Carter-Wilson traces a return to the labyrinth—a walk that becomes a meditation on grief, prayer, and the quiet work of healing. Through ancient ritual and the science of emotional tears, she reveals how each step toward the center offers release, intention, and unexpected grace.

Read now on THE LITERARY PURVEYOR.

https://theliterarypurveyor.com/2025/12/06/weep-pray-walk/

At this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Valentyn Vasyanovych’s To The Victory! claimed the Platform Award for bold vision.
The film redefines what resilience looks like in times of crisis — both on screen and behind the camera.
Created amid curfews, scarcity, and uncertainty, Vasyanovych turned constraint into creativity, crafting a haunting meditation on absence, masculinity, and hope.
🎥 “Cinema becomes a space to process, reflect, and endure.”
A reminder…

https://theliterarypurveyor.com/2025/10/23/review-to-the-victory-a-haunting-human-portrait-of-post-war-absence/

Scripture says, “God is no respecter of persons” (Acts 10:34). Yet America often practices a selective Christianity—favoring some, condemning others, and postponing justice when it is most urgent. Our latest essay in THE LITERARY PURVEYOR explores how counterfeit faith has shaped this nation, and what it would take to return to a Christianity of both justice and mercy.

https://theliterarypurveyor.com/2025/09/28/the-theology-of-evasion-americas-counterfeit-christianity/

Neighbors checking in. A sister’s visit. An ambulance siren breaking the quiet of a cul-de-sac. In her moving essay for The Literary Purveyor, Chelle Carther-Wilson reminds us that even in seasons of solitude, we are never truly alone.

https://theliterarypurveyor.com/2025/09/24/i-was-hungry-you-gave-me-food-coffee/

🚨 $495M boost: HBCU federal funding hits a record $1.34B under Trump administration plan. But the increase is one-time — FY 2025 only. Read our full update.

https://theliterarypurveyor.com/2025/09/17/495-million-increase-brings-hbcu-federal-support-to-record-high/

🎥 TIFF Premiere Review: In Good Boy, captivity becomes more than survival—it’s a chilling test of morality.
Ivory Parker unpacks the film’s disturbing dilemma in the latest Parker’s Cut.
👉 Read now.

https://theliterarypurveyor.com/2025/09/17/tiff-premiere-good-boy-turns-captivity-into-a-disturbing-moral-dilemma/