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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On this episode we explore different ideas of the Apocalypse, what the word really means, where some of the beliefs have come from, and the modern variations that have been spawned from all of this.
Outro Music is Meka Nism with The Dance at the End of the World
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