Streaming platforms abound with homogeny. I used to scroll them seemingly endlessly, looking for icons with faces that looked like mine. The irony of erasure is that you can’t unsee your own ...

Many questions pushed Maya Cade to create the Black Film Archive website, a new, curated streaming guide of Black cinema spanning 1915 through 1979: What films belong here? How can I present it in a ...

How a Twitter feed about often forgotten classics of Black film — from silent pictures to the age of blaxploitation — became a virtual vault dedicated to the preservation of a rich cinematic legacy.

“It’s as if television, media, and filmmaking are becoming manifest destiny in the wrong ways,” says Maya Cade, founder of the Black Film Archive. “And there's nothing sadder.” Of course, this isn’t ...