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Entries by Sheril Antonio from 03/2012

Where Is the Help for Black Filmmakers in Hollywood?

| Posted 03.02.2012
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The truth is that for the past 10 years most of the Academy Awards that have gone to black actors were for roles that embody what some may call "nostalgic" views of blackness.

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Cruel and Unusual Comedy?

| Posted 03.12.2012
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Ben Model, a musician and a preservationist in his own right, has made this his life's work and excels at it.

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Remembering Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple

| Posted 03.15.2012
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While I am not usually nostalgic about the past, nor am I prone to "the-good-old-days" talk there is something important about The Color Purple and the decades that would follow its release.

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