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Tongues Untied. Tongues Untied is a 1989 American video essay [1][2] experimental documentary film directed by Marlon T. Riggs, [3] and featuring Riggs, Essex Hemphill, Brian Freeman. and more. [4] The film seeks, in its author's words to, "...shatter the nation's brutalizing silence on matters of sexual and racial difference."
I'm not racist, I have black friends. "I'm not racist; I have black friends" (variant: "Some of my best friends are black"[1][2]) is a saying which is often employed by white people to justify their claim that they are not racist towards black people. The phrase, which gained popularity in the mid-2010s, has since sparked many internet memes ...
Language. silent. Something Good – Negro Kiss is a short silent film from 1898 of a couple kissing and holding hands. It is believed to depict the earliest on-screen kiss involving African Americans and is known for departing from the prevalent and purely stereotypical presentation of racist caricature in popular culture at the time it was ...
In text threads, social media comments, Instagram stories, Tik Toks and elsewhere, more people are using words like "slay," "woke," "period," "tea" and "sis" — just to name a few. While some ...
Black people finding love in books, films, and TV builds on that representation, showing the world the beauty and depth of Black romance. Love isn’t always easy though and it doesn’t mean ...
Anti-Black racism was a term first used by Canadian scholar Dr. Akua Benjamin in a 1992 report on Ontario race relations. It is defined as follows: Anti-Black racism is a specific manifestation of racism rooted in European colonialism, slavery and oppression of Black people since the sixteenth century. It is a structure of iniquities in power ...
The watermelon stereotype is an anti-Black racist trope originating in the Southern United States. It first arose as a backlash against African American emancipation and economic self-sufficiency in the late 1860s. After the American Civil War, in several areas of the South, former slaves grew watermelon on their own land as a cash crop to sell ...
By 1908, the trade had grown so large, and the practice of sending postcards featuring the victims of mob murderers had become so repugnant, that the U.S. Postmaster General banned the cards from the mails. [90] Postcard of the 1920 Duluth, Minnesota lynchings. Two of the Black victims are still hanging while the third is on the ground.