When the American Film Institute released their AFI Top 10 Films of the Year list last month, five of the top 10 were movies with Black themes and almost exclusively Black casts, a breakthrough for diversity in the Black filmmaking community on a par with nothing else I can remember when it comes to year-end awards recognition.
Those films were Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, George C. Wolfe’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Regina King’s One Night In Miami, Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah and Disney/Pixar’s animated Soul.It looked, at least in terms of diversity for the Black community, that this would be a landmark year, and it may still be with the Oscar nominations not due until Monday, and three of those films making the list of 10 Best
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