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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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Jurassic Park, what hat thou wrought? We seek to answer the question "why was this made"? Were they "so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"? Or is this the kind of movie that should've gone extinct long ago?
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