Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 7th Annual Celebration of Black Cinema & Television was held on Dec. 9 at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The ...
Defining what constitutes a Black film is a complex and nuanced question. Is it simply a story featuring Black characters and actors? Or does the director’s identity play a crucial role? For instance, ...
Maya S. Cade is the creator and curator of Black Film Archive and a scholar-in-residence at the Library of Congress. In this personal reflection, she shares her journey to creating a new space for ...
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Justin Simien’s fantastic new docuseries about the history of Black ...
The Critics Choice Association (CCA) has announced its full slate of honorees for its seventh annual Celebration of Black Cinema & Television awards. The ceremony, which will take place on December 9, ...
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures debuts its most ambitious exhibition, Regeneration: Black Cinema,1898–1971, starting August 21, 2022. Regeneration explores the achievements of Black Filmmakers ...
African American moviegoers had mixed feelings about Poitier. Many were glad that a Black actor had achieved power and prominence in Hollywood, but as Ed Guerrero writes, “Poitier’s ‘ebony saint’ ...
Honorees announced for Critics Choice Association's 8th Annual Celebration of Black Cinema & Television CCA Iconic directors Spike Lee and Ryan Coogler, plus a sterling line up of actors including ...
When you think of Black cinema in the ’70s, images of XL afros, platform shoes, big guns and even bigger personalities likely come to mind. But beyond the legacy of fun catchphrases and iconic imagery ...
About midway through the Academy Museum exhibition “Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971,” which opens Sunday, is a wall of 51 glamour shots of actors and musicians working in Hollywood from the ’20s ...
Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, the new exhibition currently on view at Los Angeles’ Academy Museum is a revelation, an education, a corrective to our blindered knowledge of American Film ...