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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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Hosts Scout Young & Penny Parker take on the task of watching the expansive catalogue of Disney Channel Original Movies in order to theorize about the grander ideas hiding beyond the intention of even the filmmakers themselves. Nothing is off the table, and no hill is too short to be scaled.
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