Films
People
Terms
#HashtagMovements
100
Portrayed African Americans as faithful and loyal uncle and mammy characters
What is The Birth of a Nation?
100
First major African American feature filmmaker
Who is Oscar Micheaux?
100
The production of films made with black actors for black audiences in an urban setting, initially intended to celebrate black power and resistance to dominant white culture
What is blaxploitation?
100
What movement caused the Academy Awards Membership policies to change?
What is #OscarsSoWhite?
200
One of the most controversial movies ever, criticized by white reviewers who said black viewers would riot.
What is Do the Right Thing?
200
First African American man to win an Academy Award
Who is Sidney Poitier?
200
Type of film that met many obstacles, including lack of funding and attention from mainstream media
What is a race film?
200
What movement prompted social media users to post about the impact a recent film had on their lives?
What is #WhatBlackPantherMeansToMe?
300
A social problem film that depicted a white liberal family's response to their daughter's engagement.
What is Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
300
Director of Do the Right Thing who addressed white viewers' racist commentary about his movie
Who is Spike Lee?
300

A narrative film that integrates a larger societal conflict into the individual conflict between its characters

What is a social problem film?
300
What movement started a campaign for rap artist Childish Gambino to become a beloved superhero in films?
What is #Donald4Spiderman?
400
Characters and plot put a human face on the gangsta-style killings that were then infesting South-Central LA.
What is Boyz n the Hood?
400
Director of Black Panther, who wrote a letter thanking those who supported his film
Who is Ryan Coogler?
400
A genre of film that ultimately was boycotted by the NAACP and other black civil rights groups due to its reduction of African American characters to stereotypes of outlaws, drug dealers, etc.
What is blaxploitation?
400
What movement prompted a Twitter user to post: "When I saw the cast of women, all my complexion or darker, none sexualized or demonized because of it, and it wasn't a film about slavery or drug addiction, I cried."
What is #WhatBlackPantherMeansToMe?
500

A race film that portrayed contemporary racial situation in the US during the early 20th century (Jim Crow, revival of KKK, Great Migration of blacks to North/Midwest cities, emergence of the "New Negro").

What is Within Our Gates?
500
Argued that violence isn't violence when it is self-defense, it is intelligence
Who is Malcolm X?
500
What is the name for the late 80s movement within African American cinema that includes Do the Right Thing and Boyz n the Hood?
What is the New Black Wave?
500
Who created the hashtag that highlighted the absence of diversity within the Academy Awards?
Who is April Reign?
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