The Power of Creating Our Own Media with Maori Holmes
Black History Year
PushBlack
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today's History Story: She Refused To Play Their Racist Game
The first great Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux inspired the 70s revolution of urban dramas and comedies that served as the launchpad for the gritty hip-hop action pieces and soulful family romances of the 80s and 90s. Today, the Black experience is the face of billion-dollar movie franchises and multiple award-winning and groundbreaking series. Black people all around the globe are claiming the rights to our culture and our heritage and streaming our stories across the planet. Is this a Black Renaissance, or is it just dues being paid? Our guest, Maori Holmes, has thoughts on that and more.
Maori Holmes is the founder and creative director of the Black Star Film Festival. BlackStar creates the spaces and resources needed to uplift the work of Black artists outside the confines of genre. They elevate artists who are overlooked, invisibilized, or misunderstood and celebrate the broad spectrum of aesthetics, storytelling, and experiences that they bring.
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| 0:00.0 | If you love Push Black's Black History Year, you'll love our newest podcast called Two Minute |
| 0:08.4 | Black History. |
| 0:10.0 | In only two minutes, you'll hear little-known stories about our people and reclaim the |
| 0:15.3 | knowledge we need to take action and advance our community. |
| 0:20.6 | To move towards the future, you've got to look to the past. |
| 0:24.9 | Learn the history you didn't get in school. |
| 0:26.9 | Tune in to Two Minute Black History, every Tuesday through Friday, right on the Black |
| 0:32.2 | History Year feed, and wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:35.8 | Savages, Slaves, Mammies, and Mates. |
| 0:56.6 | These are the roles Black actors have played in films that have saturated Hollywood for |
| 1:01.1 | decades, but the beauty of blackness and breadth of black life stretch far beyond these |
| 1:09.7 | limiting depictions. |
| 1:11.8 | This is why Black Media Matters. |
| 1:15.5 | When we tell our own stories, we challenge the stigmas and stereotypes that have been |
| 1:21.0 | perpetuated for too long. |
| 1:23.2 | We shift the ways we see ourselves. |
| 1:26.7 | Detail the truth of who we are and expand the possibilities for what can be. |
| 1:32.4 | This is Jay from Push Black and you're listening to Black History Year. |
| 1:36.7 | In the early 20th century, the first great Black filmmaker, Oscar Michelle, wrote, produced, |
| 1:44.0 | cast, and directed feature films that highlighted our lives and beautiful, sepia tones and |
| 1:51.1 | provided powerful social commentary. |
| 1:54.3 | Then came the 70s revolution of urban dramas and comedies which surged as the launch pad |
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