The event, spearheaded by local film curators Maggie Hennefeld, left, and Michelle Baroody, is a series of 13 titles from four continents selected from the premier repertory festival hosted in Bologna ...
Streaming platforms abound with homogeny. I used to scroll them seemingly endlessly, looking for icons with faces that looked like mine. The irony of erasure is that you can’t unsee your own ...
How a Twitter feed about often forgotten classics of Black film — from silent pictures to the age of blaxploitation — became a virtual vault dedicated to the preservation of a rich cinematic legacy.
When Maya Cade founded her meticulously curated database of Black films from 1915 to 1979, she addressed a community need with love. In 2020, shortly after the murder of George Floyd and the wave of ...