Entries - Time Period: Modern Era (2023 - the Present) - Starting with B

The Barber of Little Rock is a 2023 short documentary film that follows barber Arlo Washington, who founded a community development financial institution (CDFI) called People Trust with the goal of improving the financial health of his predominately African American Little Rock (Pulaski County) neighborhood. The film, directed by John Hoffman and Christine Turner and distributed by the New Yorker media company, was nominated for a 2024 Academy Award for best documentary short but lost to The Last Repair Shop. Washington founded Washington Barber College in 2008, having worked as a barber since the death of his mother when he was seventeen years old as a way of supporting his two younger sisters. A longtime customer requested a small loan …

Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear is a 2023 memoir by Jinger Duggar Vuolo, one of the stars of 19 Kids and Counting and Counting On, reality television shows focused upon the daily lives of the Duggar family. She was assisted in writing by Corey Williams. Published by W Publishing Group, an imprint of Christian publishing company Thomas Nelson, the book constituted the first memoir by a Duggar family member following brother Josh Duggar’s arrest on charges of possessing child pornography, but it deals with this scandal only in passing. The book was followed in 2023 by the release of the Amazon Studios documentary series Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets and the publication of Counting …