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🎬 Mandabi / The Money Order (1969) 📽 90 mins Dir. Ousmane Sembène Mandabi follows Ibrahim, a lazy, conceited man who is pampered by his two wives ad seven children in Dakar. One day, he receives a money order for 25,000 France from a nephew
🎬 Rustin (2023) 📽 108 mins Dir. George C. Wolfe From the director of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Rustin features a standout performance by Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin, advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. and lead organizer of the 1963 March
🎬 Just an Old Sweet Song (1976) 📽 77 mins Dir. Robert Ellis Miller Originally aired on CBS as the first of three pilots for “Down Home,” an anthology series created by Black filmmaker and writer Melvin Van Peebles, Just an Old Sweet So
🎬 Losing Ground (1982) 📽 86 mins Dir. Kathleen Collins One of the first feature films directed by a Black woman, Losing Ground traces the complex marriage between two people at a crossroads in their lives. Sara Rogers, a philosophy professor, is e
🎬 I Am Somebody (1970) 📽 30 mins Dir. Madeline Anderson Madeline Anderson’s internationally acclaimed political documentary follows 400 Black female hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina who organize to go on strike for union recogn
🎬 Alma’s Rainbow (1994) 📽 85 mins Dir. Ayoka Chenzira Feminist filmmaker and animator Ayoka Chenzira’s film Alma’s Rainbow follows Rainbow Gold, a teenager coming of age in Brooklyn, as she looks to two vastly different models of
🎬 Free, White and 21 (1980) 📽 12 minutes Dir. Howardena Pindell “You don’t exist until I validate you.” Multimedia artist Howardena Pindell’s seminal short film, Free, White and 21, is a deadpan account of the racism she e
🎬 Tower XYZ (2016) 📽 3 minutes Dir. Ayo Akingbade “Let’s get rid of the ghetto. Let’s get rid go the ghetto. Let’s get rid of the ghetto. I hope I don’t die for a long time.” So the narrator of artist and film