Recognition of Black women in American film industry still the exception, not the rule

Mar. 14 |     Movies, Media & More Dwight Hobbes You really have to wonder whether Black women are ever going to get from the American film industry the break they have long since earned, which is to say it’s gravely doubtful. White men who...

Maid in America—Oscars tend to award Black actors playing stereotypical roles

Mar. 7 |     When Viola Davis lost the Oscar for best actress portraying an African American maid in Katherine Stockett’s The Help to Meryl Streep portraying former Britain Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady at the 84th Academy Awards...