Sentences with phrase «black audiences»

I'm sure it will be not only empowering but moving as well for black audiences everywhere to finally feel represented in this white - dominated, universally beloved genre.

During a concert White police officers are seen pushing Black audience members off the stage.

Following Wonder Woman's moment at the box office as a feminist - driven powerhouse, Black Panther is connecting with black audiences in a way that no Marvel movie has before.

Mr. Avella then accused Mr. Vallone of keeping his stop - and - frisk position quiet in front of predominantly black audiences in Southeast Queens.

Speaking to a mostly black audience on 145th Street last weekend, Espaillat, who is Dominican, said, «They increased the Latino population in Charlie Rangel's existing district to 55 percent, basically setting the ground work of 20 years of nuclear political war.»

«We have to be honest about structural racism,» he told a predominantly black audience at Bethel Gospel Assembly in Harlem.

From Norman Lewis to Joe Overstreet, the Harlem Renaissance — derived tradition of African - American abstract painting (which has historically had a primarily black audience) is intermingled with the tradition of so - called self - taught or outsider artists such as Bill Traylor and Bessie Harvey (whose audience has been mostly in the rural south and mostly black); the more recent wave of African - American conceptualism represented by Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, and others (whose work

At Toronto, it's easy to eavesdrop on conversations forecasting Moonlight's limited commercial prospects in the US: the gay audience will come, the conventional wisdom goes, but black audiences don't go to art houses, and art house audiences don't gravitate towards black stories.

All part of Thomas» Unbranded, the ads originally appeared between 1968 and the present; Willis has been painstakingly moving through the history of branding, selecting images that portray blackness or target black audiences.

These shows presented a range of black lives just as series of the 70s did, but they treated prosperity as a matter of course as opposed to an uphill struggle that might discourage black audiences from emulating in their real lives.

In the email, Levenson speculates that an «overwhelming black audience» may have «scared away the whites» and that there aren't enough wealthy black fans to build a strong base of season ticket holders.

In the 1990s and 2000s, he backed hardline law - and - order candidates like Gov. George Pataki and Mayors Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, and granted them access to African - American churches and other black audiences typically reserved for liberals.

Now black audiences have a special - effects blockbuster all their own, set mostly in Africa, which, I admit, is newsworthy — although it's not the most interesting aspect of Black Panther.

I Am Not Your Negro's specifics are only intermittent, like reporting on different reactions between white and black audiences during Sidney Poitier films.

The Blaxploitation films in the 1970s gave black audiences their own heroes: Shaft, Cleopatra Jones, Coffy, Slaughter, Foxy Brown.

Black audience opinion will likely be split on Broadway's latest revival of America's most famous dramatic play, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire.

A movie like Black Panther that's set in Africa with a predominantly black cast tells black audiences in particular that they, too, can be heroic and that their stories belong in the larger cultural canon.

Black Panther has revolutionized cinema for black audiences while breaking box office records since its release.

«12 Years a Slave» screenwriter John Ridley recently compared Hollywood's inability to satiate a dissatisfied black audience with the Republican Party's inability to court the black vote.

But blaxploitation also embraced many genres including drama, horror and comedy, and, most important, urban black audiences could identify with these movies because they actually reflected their everyday lives.

Given this context, Cassel Oliver likely chose to frame the history of black performance in a way that would be familiar to black audiences rather than contemporary art audiences.

Twenty years after her breakthrough exhibition at the Drawing Center and more than five years after a Whitney retrospective, her black paper silhouettes and their white masters can still anger black artists and black audiences along with unwitting whites.

Or should their work be shown to specific black audiences, for instance, on the streets?»

Lubaina Himid speaks directly to black audiences who long to see complete narratives of our experiences represented in the art that's hung on gallery walls.

Buirski illustrates these scenes of national consciousness - raising with snippets from race films, an American genre of interwar movies starring black actors and filmed for black audiences.

In between his visits, Ms. Nixon formally declared her candidacy, making her first appearance in Brownsville, Brooklyn, speaking before a mostly black audience in one of the poorer neighborhoods in the city.

From Norman Lewis to Joe Overstreet, the Harlem Renaissance — derived tradition of African - American abstract painting (which has historically had a primarily black audience) is intermingled

Under the aegis of segregation, black audiences did not have access to some museums at all.

Normally, black audience members make up about 15 percent for a tentpole superhero movie.

Speaking to a predominantly black audience at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation gala in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Clinton tied herself to President Barack Obama's legacy, saying Trump was unfit to follow in the footsteps of the man she once ran a hard - fought campaign against.

I want to live in Wakanda, and gaguing from the reactions over on Twitter, it seems like this version of it has gone over like gangbusters, especially with black audiences.

On the first Sunday of the new urban campus, the white male pastor who had zero urban ministry experience, brashly declared to the mostly black audience, «This ain't your grandmomma's church.»

At a recent public gathering in the heart of the nation's capital, with former civil rights hero and disgraced Mayor Marion Barry on the podium as an object lesson, Farrakhan prepared his black audience for the coming race war.

When the black audience recited, «Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow...,» they meant it.

The Weinstein Co. has rushed this unfinished film into holiday release without the extra cred and preparation that a festival like Cannes could provide; both smart house and black audiences will flock to it.

talk about your politically correct Transformers for the black audience geez!

4 — Pioneers of African - American Cinema (Kino Lorber, Blu - ray, DVD) is the first comprehensive effort devoted to collecting and preserving feature films and shorts produced between 1915 and 1946 for black audiences, most of them made by African - American filmmakers.

... Superhero movies have long needed this kind of representation in terms of men and women of color, and for black audiences, «Black Panther» will undoubtedly be as culturally significant in the way it addresses subjects of identity, race and gender as «Wonder Woman» was to female fans.»

Ejiofor is most recognizable to Black audiences for his supporting roles in director Ridley Scott's American Gangster and Spike Lee's Inside Man.

Black film, and black music, and black art tend to generate in a black audience the strong urge to show support, and that has made sense to me more often than not, and driven me to both financially support and sometimes rigorously defend finished products that aren't necessarily of the highest quality.

Analyzing the persistent pressure on black audiences to root for products that aren't always very good.

For far too long, there have been Black films which are aimed squarely at a Black audience, but Johnson Family Vacation does nt fall into that trap.

One of the more self - referential gags here concerns the dearth of cinematic options for black audiences that don't involve Tyler Perry, a problem to which Simien's movie, successfully crowd - funded on the basis of a well - received three - minute concept trailer, presents itself as one of many possible solutions.

While unnecessarily overly tailored to Black audiences, especially in its controversial use of the «fear of White people» trope, there is still more than enough here for most moviegoers to enjoy.

I've always considered this to be a franchise for a black audience, although it was fun to peak into their culture.

Black Panther, on the other hand, was a passion project directed by African - American director Ryan Coogler, and transcended its comic book origins to become a deeply empowering vision for Black audiences, resonating well beyond the target audience.

Black audiences will recognize the actors from a smorgasbord of projects, including TV shows like The Wire and Moesha, but aside from Howard and Gooding, there is no real star power to pull in lazy audiences who gravitate toward big names first and content second.

Though black comedians tend to play best with black audiences, the small crowd in attendance here is primarily white.

Specifically in this case, young comedian Floyd Mooney (Jay Pharoah) wrestles with whether to semi-abandon his modestly successful career telling jokes to black audiences and pursue a film career in which he might achieve major fame and fortune by appealing to mainstream audiences.

Is Black Panther just another Blade, a smashing success to be followed mostly by cruel lack of interest in black talent, black audiences, and black movies?