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The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Get your popcorn! It’s movie night on The Stoop. Whether during filmmaking booms or busts, Black entertainers and filmmakers found a way to show Black love on screen. We explore the history of love in Black movies with film scholar Dr. Artel Great. From the first Black kiss filmed in the 1800s, to the 90's romance renaissance and beyond, we go down Black film memory lane to dissect some iconic moments of Black love on the silver screen.

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0:00.0	Hey Lila,
0:03.7	Hey Hana. So Lila, there's this story from when I was a little girl that I wanted to share with you.
0:11.6	I don't think I have. Okay, do share. I want to share with you. I don't think I have.
0:13.0	Okay, do share, I want to hear it.
0:15.0	So when I was younger, I loved basketball.
0:19.0	Really? Do you know that?
0:20.0	I never heard you mentioned that before.
0:22.0	Yeah, yeah, and I was always called a tomboy. I didn't fit in anywhere. But, you know, when I was playing basketball, I felt great. I didn't have a lot of friends but then I got this new next door
0:35.8	neighbor and we would play one-on-one all the time and then one day things got kind of heated and I was beating him in our little one on one game
0:48.0	I was just hitting every shot and then he knocked me down.
0:53.0	Wait, how now?
0:55.0	And then the next day he came to apologize.
0:57.3	I looked into his face and I realized all those times playing one on one.
1:03.6	We were actually really crushing on each other.
1:07.2	And in that moment, he leaned in and kissed me on the cheek.
1:12.1	And now you've then lost your mind.
1:15.0	What? This is the plot from love and basketball, okay?
1:20.0	Oh right, so you got me.
1:21.0	So today we're going gonna be talking about iconic black love in movies.
1:28.2	And you know, Lila, when we asked stoop listeners about this,
1:32.0	so many people said that their favorite was none other
1:35.4	than love and basketball. But I got you. It is a classic though. Some of my favorites were some of those 90s films you know we got
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