Empathy is generally defined as the ability to sense or feel other people’s emotions as well as being able to imagine what someone else might be thinking. It is one of the most important competences of the emotional intelligence. Its real meaning, which is associated to its psychological therm, is even more important than the capacity of putting oneself in the place of another person. Being empathetic and “feeling the pain of others” has become part of our social modern...

“You got a couple more years to fight” 14 year old Ronaldo tells his 9 year old half brother Titus, after spending some time teaching him to punch. He wants his younger sibling to know how to fight because, he says, nobody’s going to draw on a 9 year old. It’s just one of many sobering moments in Roberto Minervini’s beautiful and evocative portrait of a black community in Louisiana in the wake of the death of Alton Sterling and...

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