Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Jim Crow Still Lives in Hollywood
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
19 Aug 2019
🖨️ Print Article

The US film industry is more open to Black themes and participation than in the past, but still has not answered the question of what kind of society it will project, said Maryann Erigha, a professor of sociology and African American Studies at the University of Georgia, and author of the new book, “The Hollywood Jim Crow: Racial Politics of the Movie Industry.” “Is it a sanitized whiteness, is it a whitewashed vision, or can we have this unapologetic Blackness, and that just be part of the American cultural canon?”

Hollywood Racism

More Stories


  • Halt – Don’t Expand – Mass Incarceration in New York
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Halt – Don’t Expand – Mass Incarceration in New York
    14 Oct 2019
    The Black Alliance for Just Immigration supports the “No New Jails NYC” campaign to prevent the city from building 12 new prisons to replace the cells that will be lost when the infamous Rikers Isl
  • Corporate Domination is Central to Food Issues
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Corporate Domination is Central to Food Issues
    14 Oct 2019
    The lack of food outlets in Black neighborhoods is part of the larger reality of labor exploitation and corporate domination, according to Ashante Reese, professor of anthropo
  • Phony Progressives Follow Trump Lead on Venezuela
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Phony Progressives Follow Trump Lead on Venezuela
    14 Oct 2019
    So-called progressives sound just like Donald Trump when they describe Venezuela’s elected government as a “dictatorship,” said Nicholas Evan Ayala, co-editor of Anti
  •  NYT “1619 Project” More Pro-American Exceptionalism Than Anti-Slavery
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    NYT “1619 Project” More Pro-American Exceptionalism Than Anti-Slavery
    14 Oct 2019
    The New York Times’ “1619 Project” essays on the arrival of African slaves in Jamestown, Virginia “is not a critique of American exceptionalism – it is an attempt to told slavery
  • Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 7, 2019
    Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
    Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 7, 2019
    11 Oct 2019
    Black Is Back Coalition: Fight US Imperialism at Home and Abroad
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us