Films originally produced 1915-1946. Booklet, titled Pioneers of African-American cinema: film notes, includes an introduction by Paul D. Miller (aka D.J. Spooky), and essays by Charles Musser, ...

In the early part of the 20th century, black filmmakers were forced to work outside the white Hollywood mainstream -- and produced around 500 films, mainly for black audiences. To preserve this ...

The Newark Black Film Festival began in 1974 and has since become the longest-running festival of Black cinema in the United States. A year later, an independent film named "Cooley High," about four ...

volume 1. Theater, film, and television -- volume 2. Sports -- volume 3. Music and popular art Volume I: Theater, film, and television. The politics of representation in African American theater and ...

Cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest returns to louse up the Black Panther era. To comprehend the excitement generated by those first blaxploitation releases, one has to consider the blinding whiteness of ...

The new Blu-ray DVD set collects some of the most important African-American filmmaking of the past century. 'Pioneers Of African-American Cinema' Collects Important Black Filmmaking A new Blu-ray DVD ...

It was 1970 and Black-Jewish relations weren’t at their best. Two years earlier, the Ocean-Brownsville teachers’ strike in Brooklyn had pitted Black and Jewish New Yorkers against one another.

A modest and affectionate documentary, “How To Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It),” serves as further reminder to an ever-forgetful public of the work of Melvin Van Peebles, a ...

The African American Cinema Society highlighted the work of roughly a dozen graduate and undergraduate student filmmakers on Friday. (Fin Liu / Daily Trojan) Friday was the final day of Black History ...

The annual film festival featured screenings of five films telling stories ranging from gun violence to the fast-food industry, directed by both current and recently graduated students. (Devon Cecil) ...

With movie-history viewing choices spawning like mold in a damp room, we can easily see the things we didn’t even know we’d never seen. For me that includes Takashi Miike’s Black Society Trilogy ...

Winning an Oscar has the potential to make or break an actor’s career. Now, we’re looking deeper into their stories. Despite 2025 Oscars snubs, let’s take a look at Black, history-making moments at ...