'Dear White People' confronts police brutality in the episode everyone needs to see

Spoiler alert: This post contains key spoilers from Episode 5 of the Netflix show Dear White People.

It's hard to imagine that in the 2014 film version of Dear White People, Reggie (Marque Richardson) was a peripheral character — because in Netflix's 2017 adaption, he's the center of the episode everyone's talking about.

That would be Episode 5 ("Chapter V," helmed by Moonlight director Barry Jenkins), which focuses on Reggie's journey at fictional Ivy League school Winchester University. When a campus party leads to him arguing with a white classmate who sings along with the n-word (NO), the campus police arrive — and one of them holds Reggie at gunpoint. Read more...

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