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The history of cinema is marked by the rocky path that women had to hurdle to work in a profession beset, from its origins, by the infamous gender gap. The inclusion of women in opportunities beyond their appearances on the big screen has been late and slow in every aspect of the movie industry.

Alice Guy, the very first woman filmmaker in the history of cinema, was born in Paris on July 1, 1873, to a Chilean father and a French mother. After the death of her father in 1891, she trained as a typist and stenographer to help support her widowed mother and four siblings.

It is said that ‘an apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. ’ In the case of Sherry Lansing, one of the most successful executives in Hollywood history, that tree was her mother, Margot Heimann, who had escaped Nazi Germany at age 17 and settled in the Chicago area.

During the lead-up to the revelatory song “I’m the Greatest Star,” in the 1968 film Funny Girl, Fanny Brice tries to explain her uniqueness. “I’m a bagel on a plate of onion rolls.

Not since the race film genre of movies that started around 1915 and continued till the 1950s was there another movement in cinema history where Black filmmakers made films with all-Black casts and crews primarily for Black audiences till the blaxploitation era of the early 1970s. The similarities in both movements abound.

"This is the one place where they can't stop Black people from voting," said three-time Golden Globe nominee and host of the show Anthony Anderson in his opening statements at the 53rd NAACP Image Awards. He also praised Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who on February 25, became the first Black woman to be nominated to the Supreme Court.

Friday night the NAACP Image Awards streamed its final pre-show presentation out of the week-long virtual experience inviting fans to join the Image Awards celebration of the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color across more than 80 competitive categories. The live show is set to air on BET tonight, February 26 with the Golden Globe nominee Anthony Anderson hosting, Golden Globe nominee Samuel L.

The heyday of Film Noir was in the 1940s and 50s in the post-WWII period.  The films characterized by black and white photography, stylishly shot, voiceovers, flashbacks, mostly based on hard-boiled crime fiction depicted flawed characters that encompassed detectives, losers, grifters, femmes fatales.

“Wake up, my sunshine. The war has just begun,” a young mother named Irina told her ten-month-old son at six in the morning.

Thursday night was NAACP Image Award's Night 4 out of five streaming presentations leading us to a live show set to air on BET on Saturday, February 26 with Golden Globe nominee Anthony Anderson hosting, Grammy winner Mary J. Blige performing, Golden Globe nominee Samuel L.