The long history of African-American film is almost a national secret. Oscar Micheaux has been the most astonishing early independent Black filmmaker, renown for his great contributions to a film genre that was termed race films. He has written, directed, produced and distributed forty-four films between 1918 and 1948. Twenty-four of these films were feature length. His last feature […]

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