7 best films from Black filmmakers By Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune
Published: January 22, 2021, 6:08am
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Julie Dash launched her career with t “Daughters of the Dust” in 1991 and has made one movie since. Charles Burnett’s “Killer of Sheep” made a splash in 1978 but he has struggled to complete a handful of features since then.
Dash’s lyrical fable and Burnett’s tough-minded drama are nothing alike, but they do have one thing in common: Both overlooked filmmakers are Black.
Even getting their debut features into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, which lists just 775 movies of historic and artistic importance, hasn’t made it easier for those two in Hollywood. Only in the past few years have directors such as Regina King (“One Night in Miami,” in theaters now and streaming Friday), Barry Jenkins (the Oscar-winning “Moonlight”), Jordan Peele (“Get Out”) and others begun to chip away at inequities demonstrated by a 2019
Julie Dash launched her career with the widely acclaimed "Daughters of the Dust" in 1991 and has only made one movie since. Charles Burnett s "Killer of Sheep" made a huge
The Roots of African American AIDS Activism: On Dan Royles’s “To Make the Wounded Whole”
Dan Royles
THE FINAL CHAPTER of
To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS, a new book by the historian Dan Royles, tells the story of SisterLove, a collective founded in 1989 by the esteemed activist Dázon Dixon Diallo. At its founding and in the years since SisterLove addressed the need for a movement specifically focused on Black women’s health. Based in the South, SisterLove acknowledged and addressed the pressures, prejudices, blockades, and biases experienced by Black women in the areas of sexuality, health care, and human rights. The organization took a global view of health issues, acknowledging disparities between countries and regions alongside those among race, gender, and class. SisterLove aimed its efforts toward “women who had been marginalized, including sex workers, incarcerated women, and women on welfare,” Royles explains, addi