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Black Films

  1. What to Watch After Black Panther: An Afrofuturism PrimerBlack Panther may be the highest-profile Afrofuturist artwork to penetrate the public consciousness, but it doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
  2. Losing Ground Is an Underrated Entry in the Canon of Black Female DirectorsKathleen Collins’s only film, Losing Ground never played outside of the festival circuit until long after she died from breast cancer in 1988.
  3. Every Time Hollywood Made the ‘Black Version’ of a Hit MovieFrom Blacula to Who’s Your Caddy?, let’s review the most egregious examples of “What if we made a black version of X?”
  4. Odds Against Tomorrow Is a Hidden Noir Gem That Considers Anti-Black RacismThe Harry Belafonte–produced and starring film subverts and complicates what came before it.