Baz Luhrmann’s new Netflix series The Get Down is a fantastical bildungsroman set against the backdrop of the Bronx in the late 1970s.
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Separate But Unequal: ‘Pioneers of African-American Cinema’
Race films were produced especially for “colored only” or “Negro theatres” that catered to African-American neighborhoods during the era of legal segregation.
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Vineyard Film Fest Puts Spotlight on African Americans
Vineyard Film Fest Puts Spotlight on African Americans [two_fifth padding=”0 25px 0 10px”]BY Natalie McKeer | PUBLICATION Cape Cod Times The 14th year of the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival will feature 45 Feature, Documentary and Short Films produced and starring African Americans.[/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”]The name of the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film […]
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A Thorny Question for African American Museum: Whose Story Do We Tell?
“Our museum is built on individual narratives, but you’re just not going to be able to tell everybody’s story,” curator Nancy Bercaw said.
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Black Films Matter
Will ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ Nate Parker’s provocative slavery saga, attract African American audiences and the Academy?
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New Ava DuVernay Doc to Explore Racial Inequality’s Impact on Mass Incarceration: ‘Our Population Has Been Demonized’
Ava DuVernay will make history when her documentary exploring mass incarceration and racial inequality opens this year’s New York Film Festival.
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