5/13/2023 0 Comments Colorization by Wil Haygood![]() ![]() She won Best Supporting Actress for her role in “Gone With the Wind” (1939). Hattie McDaniel was the first black person to win an Oscar. ![]() The Birth of a Nation was screened at the White House for President Woodrow Wilson, who contributed written text for the film and is recognized now as a particularly egregious racist for even that period of time in American history. The silent film focused on the “noble intent of the Ku Klux Klan” and “portrayed Black people as criminals, sex fiends and goggle-eyed fools, in skulking league with Northern carpetbaggers,” as Dwight Garner so aptly put it in his review of Colorization in The New York Times. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and became Hollywood’s first blockbuster in 1915. He begins Colorization with an examination of D. Haygood looks at 100 years of Black movies, discussing the challenges and successes of Black actors and filmmakers, from Gone with the Wind to Black Panther and discusses how those films show the history of civil rights, racism and Black culture in America. ![]()
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