Film
Bébé’s Kids
- 2PM
Based on an iconic sketch by comedy great Robin Harris, the first mainstream animated feature made expressly for black audiences introduces viewers to a gaggle of pint-sized hellraisers who, left in the hands of hapless chaperone Robin, unleash epic mayhem at an amusement park. Fresh and funny as ever, Bébé’s Kids mixes irreverent comedy with sharp commentary about the ways in which young black people are targeted by the racist American police state.
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