Why is it Hard to Make a Proper Civil Rights Movement Movie?

White people will have to get uncomfortable with the truth.

Sharonda Harris-Marshall
Cine Suffragette
Published in
7 min readFeb 27, 2019

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So, The Green Book won an Academy Award for Best Picture on Sunday. I should be happy about this considering many white people were not even aware of the Green Book as a Jim Crow-era concept before this movie. But I’m still wondering how in the world a movie…

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Sharonda Harris-Marshall
Cine Suffragette

is a filmmaker, photographer, and digital media artist living a stereotypical artist life. She could have been a doctor or a scientist, but here we are.