MLK Day

In honor of Black History Month, we are reposting this analysis from 2025. Among the 2026 winners were Ryan Coogler's Sinners (with three Globes, including Cinematic & Box Office Achievement).

For over 30 years, Oprah Winfrey, “the queen of all media,” set the tone for cultural conversations in America, and Winfrey’s acceptance speech for her Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2018 was no exception.

A trailblazer for civil rights. A man of great dignity.

Larry Peerce directed One Potato, Two Potato (1964), a pioneering indie drama about interracial marriage and its devastating effects on all concerned, especially the young white daughter caught up in a messy situation. The film preceded by three years the more famous Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Stanley Kramer’s Golden Globe nominee (and Oscar winner) starred Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton.

Hallelujah, a pre-Code feature, is considered to be the first all-Black musical. Remarkably, the innovative director King Vidor was able to make a rather "personal" project within the studio system, despite initially strong discouragement of MGM’s conservative heads.

As the Black Lives Matter movement is gaining more ground in the wake of countless police killings, the number of (mostly white) people interested in getting an education in Black history is growing. The streamers have responded and added many films and documentaries to their library.