Watching
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. hosts African American Lives 2 on PBS.
Reading
The Color of Politics
New Yorker article about Cory Booker, a “mayor of the post-racial generation” and the history of Newark politics.
Variety reports that Agnes Varda is working on a new “autobiographical docu feature”, Les Places d’Agnes, that will be ready for Cannes later this year.
SXSW Film Festival announces 2008 documentary line-up