Boots Riley’s Anti-Capitalist Film & Family Legacy | Durham News

Boots Riley, the visionary filmmaker behind Sorry to Bother You and I’m a Virgo, returns to his roots in North Carolina to promote his new anti-capitalist caper, I Love Boosters, screening at Duke University—where his father once risked everything protesting segregation. Walter Riley, a young civil rights titan in the 1960s who led NAACP youth efforts and even moderated debates with Malcolm X, laid the groundwork for Boots’ radical worldview. From being expelled from church at twelve for rejecting religion without liberation to inspiring real-world labor movements through his films, Boots sees cinema as organizing—and he’s witnessing a “hot labor summer” fueled by audiences who’ve been moved to strike, unionize, and fight back.

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