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On Borders and the Matters of Black Life: A Review of “Seven Seconds”

April 11, 2018April 30, 2018 J. T. Roane film, Jim Crow, police brutality, police violence, Visual Culture

*Editor’s Note: This essay contains spoilers* In the recently released Netflix drama, Seven Seconds, viewers are confronted with a dramatization of

Wakanda and Black Feminist Political Imagination

March 24, 2018April 2, 2018 Samantha Pinto #BlackPanther, #comicsandrace, black feminism, Black women, Gender

*This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter

Representing HBCUs: Spike Lee’s “School Daze” at 30

March 23, 2018March 26, 2018 Lavelle Porter Black cinema, Black film, blackness, education, Resistance, white supremacy

On the night of February 11, 2018, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) hosted two sold out screenings for the

Film Blackness, Hollywood Whiteness

March 2, 2018March 3, 2018 Justin Gomer Black cinema, Black film, blackness, racism, white supremacy

“What if black film could be something other than embodied? What if black film was immaterial and bodiless? What if

The Nubian Body, African Aesthetics, and Cultural Imagination

February 15, 2018February 16, 2018 Janell Hobson africa, Afrofuturism, Black women, comic books, film, hip hop

The excitement over the much-anticipated African-themed superhero film, Black Panther, has reached fever pitch among African Americans and Black communities