How Black resistance has been depicted in films over the years
From Something Good — Negro Kiss to Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Black cinema has long served as a form of resistance.
by Jason Fuller
Mar 02, 2023
4 minutes
One of Carter G. Woodson's more powerful quotes from The Mis-Education of a Negro is: "If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."
Woodson, the father of Black History Month, would be happy to know that since 1928, the month — formerly called Negro History Week — has always had a theme.
This year it was Black Resistance.
It's a rich vein to mine from, because the definition and depictions of resistance — ranging on a spectrum of subtle to emphatic — are
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