LEADers on Inequality, Race, Ethnic Politics, and African American History

Special treat for African American History Month Netflix will stream 22 hard to find films from Black Cinema’s Earliest Pioneers. In 2015, Kino Lorber released a treasure trove from American history in a DVD box set, Pioneers of African-American Cinema. Hours upon hours of feature-length and short films spanning the 1910s to the 1940s were…

Social Invisibility: Can a Black Woman’s “hoeness” be Deleted? Stereotypes, Rumors, and Titles of Shame

“Black women emerged from slavery enshrined in the consciousness of white America as “mammy” and “bad black woman.” –  Cherly Gilkes According to a society that has condemned black women for her erotic….no!!!!…our “hoeness” can not be deleted.  It seems as though we forget how and why these labels against our women came from in…