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The popular names Aisha, [4] Aaliyah, [18] and others are also examples of names derived from Islam. Several African-American celebrities began adopting Muslim names (frequently following a religious conversion to Islam), including Muhammad Ali , who changed his name in 1964 from Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was written by Columbus Salley.
10,000 Black Men Named George is a 2002 Showtime TV movie about A. Philip Randolph and his coworkers Milton P. Webster and Ashley Totten. The title refers to the custom of the time when Pullman porters, all of whom were black, were addressed as "George"; a sobriquet for George Pullman, who owned the company that built the sleeping cars (and other Railroad cars) and the industry.
Fifty Shades of Black; The Fighting Temptations; List of films about black girlhood; Fingers in the Wind; First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story; First Sunday; The Five Heartbeats; The Flying Ace; For Colored Girls; For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story; Four Brothers (film) Fresh (1994 film) Friday (1995 film) Friday After Next ...
This is a list of hood films.These films focus on the culture and life of African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and, in some cases, Asian-Americans or White Americans who live in segregated, low-income urban communities.
Writers and directors have featured a black man as president in several memorable portrayals. There have been film and television proposals based on the idea, as well. [15] The first movie portrayal of a black American president was probably that of Sammy Davis Jr. in the 1933 film Rufus Jones for President.
The 1970s Black variant sought to tell Black stories with Black actors to Black audiences, but they were usually not produced by African Americans. As Junius Griffin, the president of the Hollywood branch of the NAACP , wrote in a New York Times op-ed in 1972: "At present, Black movies are a 'rip off' enriching major white film producers and a ...
The drama film is based on the novel of the same name by Walter Dean Myers. [22] [23] [27] [24] Monsters and Men: January 19, 2018: September 28, 2018: The drama film features a black man in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn who catches on video the wrongful shooting by a white police officer and who faces a dilemma about releasing the video or ...