First things first: Mike Epps is a great comedian. If you do not know his work, I recommend you visit IMDb and take a journey through his contributions to American comedy. That said, Epps is a star in The Last Black Man in San Francisco, a film that made a big splash at Sundance 2019 and is, of course, about the death of a once-amazing city. And what killed San Francisco? The same thing that is killing Seattle right now—what the obscure mid-century urban sociologist Ruth Glass identified as gentrification. This film explores the racial and psychological trauma that seemingly unstoppable process leaves in its wake. by Charles Mudede