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You Can't Not Feel Good Listening to This: The Teskey Brothers, "Man of the Universe" [VIDEO]

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines7/06/2019 10:24:52 pm PDT

At one time, there was a whole industry devoted to making films specifically for African-American audiences.
Race film

The race film or race movie was a film type produced entirely in the United States between about 1915 and the early 1950s, consisting of films produced for an all-black audience, featuring black casts.

In all, approximately five hundred race films were produced. Of these, fewer than one hundred remain. Because race films were produced outside the Hollywood studio system, they were largely forgotten by mainstream film historians until they resurfaced in the 1980s on the BET cable network. In their day, race films were very popular among African American theatergoers. Their influence continues to be felt in cinema and television marketed to African Americans.

Note that “colored” film-goers can sit anywhere in the theater for this presentation.