Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome.

I'm Karen Hunter and every Friday I do a K-H what to watch list.

It's what I'm watching on television.

I do a top five.

And if you want to see any previous ones, you can go to

Karen Hunter's Show.com and check out what I've watched over the last several years. But today I wanted

to highlight one of the films that is on my list this week. And it is called Service to Men.

It's a film that came out in 2016. I watched it when it came out. I rewatched it because it's Black

History Month. And it centers something that I think at the time that I watched it, I wasn't

really fully immersed in history, even though I've, of course, heard of Meherry Medical College.

I wasn't where I am now. So I watched it with a critical eye.

First, before I get into it, Keith David does an amazing job, as does Lamont Rucker.

The acting is actually pretty good.

The storyline I'm really going to lean into, but the reason why I'm recommending this is because

just like everything, I believe that

you can find bread crumbs to expand your knowledge. And this is a good film for anyone out there

who knows nothing about black history at all. This is a good film to sit with because it raises

a lot of questions. Like, why was their need for a Meheri medical college? Well, in 1876,

when the medical school was founded in Tennessee as part of the medical department of Central

Tennessee College, it was right after enslavement, of course, and there were a lot of four million freed black people

who needed now medical attention, you know, needed doctors. And unfortunately, the United States

of America did not necessarily welcome black people into their schools.

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