Khalik Allah’s ‘Field Niggas’ Frames the Beauty and Woe of 125th Street
“People on Tumblr love you,” says an anonymous young woman to Khalik Allah near the corner of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue. “You should be in Chelsea. LES. People down there love stuff like that. Black people and drugs. So urban.”
It’s one of many self-aware moments in Allah’s debut feature, Field Niggas. The film is a study of that single intersect…
