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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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The Men of Micheaux traveled to Brooklyn in 2018 to sit down with actor-producers Dorian Missick and his best friend Omar Dorsey to review insane "blaxploitation" action comedy DOLEMITE (1975) written by and starring Rudy Ray Moore and directed by then & only D'Urville Martin.
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