In the 1980s, there were only 63 Black films by, for, or about Black Americans. But in the 1990s, that number quadrupled, with 220 Black films making their way to cinema screens nationwide. What sparked this “Black New Wave?” Who blazed this path for contemporaries like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Jordan Peele? And how did these films transform American culture as a whole? Presenting The Class of 1989, a new limited-run series from pop culture critics Len Webb and Vincent Williams, hosts ...
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In this episode: Andrew’s still in an Arizona hotel with no mic, we start to lose it before tightening reality Up-Man, and Not-Evil Astronema is MAD boring. ALSO: We do some deep mythology digging to figure out these powers, there’s a new update on Grow-Big Grandpa, and Skin-Walkers were the first Rangers. ALSO: Andrew wants to remind you he called it and if you ever take anything from our head canons, let it be that the Morphin’ Grid is a personality-draining parasite.
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