It all starts with a kiss. The Detroit Institute of Arts’ (DIA) new special exhibition, “Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898 – 1971,” greets visitors at its entrance with a larger-than-life projection of ...
Something Good-Negro Kiss (1898), discovered by archivist Dino Everett and identified by scholar Allyson Field (screenshot via USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive’s Vimeo) A recently discovered ...
Against a backdrop of minstrelsy shows of the time, that showed Black people in torn and tattered clothes with bugged-out eyes and grotesque lips, often limited to exaggerated and dehumanizing bestial ...
The 1898 silent film Something Good‑Negro Kiss is often described as the earliest known on-screen depiction of Black intimacy. The National Library of Norway A new exhibition at the Detroit Institute ...
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