Is That Black Enough for You?!?

00:00:21 For me, the most exciting period

00:06:22 So that, uh, by and large, there was a very strict system of segregation.

00:12:23 The last film noir of its era

00:17:49 Davis holds the movie in his clenched fist until the last act

00:24:09 Hello, just to set the record straight,

00:29:58 We are important.

00:36:15 Truth and Soul!

00:41:29 The changes left at least one esteemed filmmaker at a loss,

00:47:18 an evolution Van Peebles wanted audiences to feel.

00:52:58 by hijacking the X-rating.

00:58:43 an America that never existed

01:04:11 for her first leading role, in the first film about Billie Holiday,

01:09:57 or Emmett Till, a real-life Black innocent,

01:15:52 Richard said, "You've gotta walk in like it's yours."

01:21:21 But it did ask a question answered by many Black films,

01:26:50 'cause all of those musicians brought their best game.

01:32:05 of a terrible and ghastly World War II sitcom

01:37:09 and Fred Williamson

01:42:36 Gentlemen.

01:48:32 One of the first scenes I remember shooting

01:53:53 and running up the museum steps, which Joe Frazier did first,

01:59:56 the entrance, the confidence, the propulsive theme to announce the star,

02:05:04 And the rocket that was launched from the planet Krypton by DC Comics

02:11:16 I think it's something my grandmother would have agreed with.