US Winston Online Club

The ambitious civil rights docudrama “Blood Done Sign My Name,” drawn from the racial tensions and awoken activism surrounding the 1970 murder of a young black Vietnam veteran in Oxford, N.C., is itself a struggle. In this adaptation of Tim Tyson’s historical memoir of being a progressive white minister’s wide-eyed son during that time, screenwriter-director Jeb Stuart laterals from the perspective of the Rev. Vernon Tyson (Ricky Schroder) — nudging his church toward acceptance of blacks — to the blooming of young teacher-businessman Benjamin Chavis (Nate Parker) into an impassioned rabble-rouser after his cousin is brutally killed by a white shopkeeper and his two sons. ... read more >>