This is a word, a podcast from Slate of your host, Jason Johnson.

Decades before Moonlight, Black Panther, or anything from Spike Lee,

Black filmmakers were telling African American stories without money or fanfare,

but with honesty and love.

Now you can find the best of these movies in the Black Film Archive.

Thanks to its creator, Maya Kaye.

We are not a monolith. Blackness is not a monolith. I think there are so many ways

that we've been represented across time.

The Black Film Archive, coming up on a word with me, Jason Johnson.

Stay with us.

Welcome to a word, a podcast about race, and politics, and everything else.

I'm your host, Jason Johnson. It's the holiday season and it's

a great scuffing season. That means it's time when lots of us are huddled on couches with friends, family, and people we love, and people we want to love us.

And we're watching movies.

Many Black Film lovers see this as a golden age for African American creators,

with plenty of Black Busters, Indies, and even horror stories you choose from.

But our guest says that there are hundreds of great Black films from the past waiting to be rediscovered.

Movies like Analu Kosta, a 1958 drama, starring Eartha Kid and Sammy Davis Jr. as Star Cross lovers. Here's a clip.

You don't belong to one man, baby. You'll never belong to one man. You can't.

Yes, I can. I know I can. I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to scare me.

I'm trying to save you a lot of grief, baby. You and me were real people, Anna.

We're the real stuff. Many of the time we set the earth on fire. You stick with me. We'll burn it up.

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