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Tananarive Due (born 1966) writer specializing in Black speculative fiction, and professor of Black Horror and Afrofuturism [7] Henry Dumas (1934–1968) Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), poet; Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935) David Anthony Durham (born 1969) Richard Durham, (1917–1984), wrote radio series Destination Freedom; Michael Eric ...
Karen Blanche Black (née Ziegler; July 1, 1939 – August 8, 2013) was an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter.She rose to prominence for her work in various studio and independent films in the 1970s, frequently portraying eccentric and offbeat characters, and established herself as a figure of New Hollywood.
Lady Anne Barnard (1750–1825) Lesley Beake (born 1949) Mark Behr (born 1963), South Africa/Tanzania; Dricky Beukes (1918–1999) Lauren Beukes (born 1976) Steve Biko (1946–1977) Troy Blacklaws (born 1965) François Bloemhof (born 1962) Elleke Boehmer (born 1961) Dugmore Boetie (c.1924–1966) Stella Blakemore (1906–1991) William Bolitho ...
In US cinema, Blaxploitation is the film subgenre of action movie derived from the exploitation film genre in the early 1970s, consequent to the combined cultural momentum of the Black civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Black Panther Party, political and sociological circumstances that facilitated Black artists reclaiming their power of the Representation of the Black ...
At the Sundance Film Festival 2020, three black women directors took home a prize. [30] Maïmouna Doucouré is a French film maker. Her feature film, Cuties, first premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. [31] [32] Radha Blank made her first feature film, The 40-Year-Old Version, in 2020. Blank went on to win the Directing Award in the U.S ...
Prefixes such as La/Le, Da/De, Ra/Re, or Ja/Je and suffixes such as -ique/iqua, -isha (for girls), -ari and -aun/awn (for boys) are common, as well as inventive spellings for common names. The book Baby Names Now: From Classic to Cool—The Very Last Word on First Names places the origins of "La" names in African-American culture in New Orleans ...
Africa. Democratic Republic of the Congo; Egypt; Ethiopia; Ghana; Mali; Nigeria; Senegal; South Africa; Albania; Australia; Bangladesh; Canada; China; Denmark ...
African-American women and African-American gay and lesbian women have also made advances directing films, in Radha Blank's comic The 40-Year-Old Version (2020), Ava DuVernay's fanciful rendition of the children's classic A Wrinkle in Time [1] [58] or Angela Robinson's short film D.E.B.S. (2003) turned feature-length adaptation in 2004.