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Fighting for Realistic Black Images
As we gear up for the Academy Awards, filmmaker and author Nelson George analyzes the way African Americans are depicted on screen in the New York Times, and he isn’t satisfied with what he’s found. The four films noted here are contenders for a slew of major Oscars: “Django Unchained,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild,”…
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The Fuzzy Racial Glow of 'The Help'
Author and filmmaker Nelson George writes in the New York Times that The Help is a domestic drama that avoids the racial tumult of the civil rights era. THIS year I took Highway 80 from Montgomery to Selma, Ala., reversing the journey of activists in three separate civil rights marches in March 1965. My destination…
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