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 we have a guest joining us,
American screen writer & producer Michael
Charles Hill who worked for Sunbow Entertainment
Animation Studios in the mid 1980s, he worked on
classic animated TV shows such as G1 Transformers,
G.I Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles plus many more,
join us as he tells us the story of those shows from his perspective & how eventually he was allowed to create his own Transformer!
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