Black History Month

At MIT, an alum follows four African students striving to become change agents for home.

In the lush documentary After Sherman, a piercing personal essay by Jon-Sesrie Goff, the director patches through time by speaking with his father, friends, and neighbors to tell the history of the Gullah Geechee community. It’s a meditative work, a film that can often descend down rabbit holes without a clear path out, but whose explorations unearth far more than it leaves buried.

Pier Kids is a brilliant documentation of found family, friendship and acceptance. Chronicled in the film is a bittersweet mix of both the inclusion young people find at the Piers and the isolation many of them face in their everyday lives. It is told sensitively, authentically and lovingly.