Movies: Black awareness

  • 1977
    Greased Lightning

    Greased Lightning (1977)

    Greased Lightning

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    The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race....

    Greased Lightning
  • 2005
    Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, Celebrated Writer

    Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, Celebrated Writer (2005)

    Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, Celebrated Writer

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    Ralph Ellison was an African-American writer and essayist, who's only novel Invisible Man (1953) gained a wide critical success. Ellison's ambitious journey from a childhood of hardship and poverty to celebrated African American writer is chronicled ...

    Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, Celebrated Writer
  • 2024
    Tina Turner - My Songs. My Life

    Tina Turner - My Songs. My Life (2024)

    Tina Turner - My Songs. My Life

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    Tina Turner - My Songs. My Life
  • 2013
    T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s

    T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s (2013)

    T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s

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    The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the first class of African-American women to sing their way to fame and fortune. Blues divas such as Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Alberta Hunter created and ...

    T'Ain't Nobody's Bizness: Queer Blues Divas of the 1920s
  • 2017
    I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow

    I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow (2017)

    I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow

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    “I don’t want to feel like it’s only me. I know it’s not only me, because there are others out there…” ‘I Don’t Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadow’ is a short visual essay film by artist animator, Jessica Ashman, about navigating the visual art and ...

    I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow
  • 1938
    The Story of Doctor Carver

    The Story of Doctor Carver (1938)

    The Story of Doctor Carver

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    The story of Dr. George Washington Carver (1864-1943), black educator and horticulturist. He is perhaps most well known for developing over 140 products from all parts of the peanut plant, including the shells and husks. He also developed products ba...

    The Story of Doctor Carver
  • 1969
    ...Lombrado

    ...Lombrado (1969)

    ...Lombrado

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    Two young black friends from the same hood thrive a future as artists, but everything changes when the COVID-19 pandemic becomes a global issue and art can no longer be the main source of their income. Even thought, each in their own way, they strugl...

    ...Lombrado
  • 2023
    The Black Album

    The Black Album (2023)

    The Black Album

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    The Black Album places scrutiny on the notion of "Black Excellence" in a revisionist take....

    The Black Album