Black film - AAIHS

How Hollywood Has Ignored the Haitian Revolution

African Americans have long been interested in Haiti.1 Decades before the so-called “Haitian turn” of the twenty-first century in US

Following the lead of Martin Luther King, Jr., Black civil rights activists dismantled Jim Crow legislation with colorblind logic. Yet,

I’m listening to jazz as I write this review. This was an intentional decision as I felt Therí Alyce Pickens’s

*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent. The music video

*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent and features