*Los Angeles, CA – Movies, documentaries and TV shows about the black experience were in abundance in 2016 making it a truly historic year in terms of the number of movies, documentaries and TV shows ...
Mahershala Ali and Alex R. Hibbert in the 2016 film Moonlight (all images courtesy A24) In Barry Jenkins’s film Moonlight, the main character, Chiron, is mostly silent. We first see him as a small boy ...
Cultural stereotypes are deeply ingrained in popular entertainment. This is especially true for film, where "types" of people often serve as a kind of storytelling shorthand, moving the plot forward ...