The filmmaker Williams Cole talks about two current projects, Barbara Kopple’s documentary “Gumbo Coalition,” which he co-produced, and “Rebel Wife,” a work in progress about his great-grandmother, an Irish revolutionary.

Chuck D of the rap group Public Enemy will be at the Canoe Place Inn to talk with Chris Cuomo about hip-hop’s 50-year rise to the world stage.

Bay Street Theater will be one of the outlets sharing The Met: Live in HD's simulcast of “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” a 1986 opera having its premiere at the the Metropolitan Opera this season.

A new film explores the “male gaze” and the objectification of women by recreating British colonial postcards with contemporary women of color as models.