InFanfarebyJames AG (Ya'akov ben Avraham v'Sarah)The Birth of a Nation: My Reckoning with D.W. Griffith’s Grand, Racist Cinematic SpectacleD.W. Griffith’s ground-breaking silent cinema epic is a technical and historical cinematic marvel, albeit with a reprehensibly racist coreFeb 2211
InYonge MagazinebyBilqees MohamedThe Birth Of A Nation & MisogynoirWho has the privilege of separating art from the artist?Oct 7, 2016
Dwayne Wong (Omowale)Nat Turner’s Wife in Birth of a Nation: More Problems with BiopicsGabrielle Union in Birth of a NationMar 29, 20231Mar 29, 20231
Mona NicoaraWatching History Through Our Fingers: Handling Past and Present Traumas in Teaching The Birth of a…I teach one of the most racist films in the 125 year-long history of cinema, D.W. Griffith’s 1915 revisionist Civil War epic The Birth of a…Jul 11, 2022Jul 11, 2022
InFanfarebyJames AG (Ya'akov ben Avraham v'Sarah)The Birth of a Nation: My Reckoning with D.W. Griffith’s Grand, Racist Cinematic SpectacleD.W. Griffith’s ground-breaking silent cinema epic is a technical and historical cinematic marvel, albeit with a reprehensibly racist coreFeb 2211
InYonge MagazinebyBilqees MohamedThe Birth Of A Nation & MisogynoirWho has the privilege of separating art from the artist?Oct 7, 2016
Dwayne Wong (Omowale)Nat Turner’s Wife in Birth of a Nation: More Problems with BiopicsGabrielle Union in Birth of a NationMar 29, 20231
Mona NicoaraWatching History Through Our Fingers: Handling Past and Present Traumas in Teaching The Birth of a…I teach one of the most racist films in the 125 year-long history of cinema, D.W. Griffith’s 1915 revisionist Civil War epic The Birth of a…Jul 11, 2022
Avia KnightenBlack Like Me?… No, I Don’t Think So: The Lasting Damage of Blackface On ScreenThere is a popular saying in the Black community: “Everybody wants to be black, until it’s time to be Black”. The insulting practice of…Feb 15, 2021
Cheo Tyehimba TaylorRebirth of a NationNot until majority white-owned media monopoly is dismantledJun 24, 20201
catjungleTed Cruz sent me an email with an MLK quote in it.I told him if it were 1915 he’d be in the KKK. Ted Cruz and his fucking MLK quotes would have been George Wallace in MLK’s day. He would…Jun 9, 2020
