Black History Month is over, but these movies are forever
Seven years ago, Slate magazine published the Black Film Canon, a collection of 50 of the best films directed by Black filmmakers. NPR's Aisha Harris recently teamed up with Slate to update the list.
Last month, I had the good fortune of revisiting one of my creative projects I'm most proud of:, a collection of great and culturally significant films by Black directors as voted on by esteemed film critics, scholars, and filmmakers. Not long after it was originally published in Slate in 2016, my co-author Dan Kois and I were already talking about updating the list – mere months later came the releases of and , just for starters. (Fun fact/humble-brag: When I interviewed Barry Jenkins about for my old
