“I just wanted to honor us, honor the Black women in my life,” A Thousand and One writer/director A.V. Rockwell shares. And that energy is evident in every frame of her debut feature film about Inez, a young mother in 1990s, early 2000s Harlem raised in foster care fighting to give her son Terry better opportunities than […]

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