Nina Simone performs the song "Four Women" for the Dutch television program "Nina Simone" in 1965
Nina Simone performs the song "Mississippi Goddam" for the Dutch television program, "Nina Simone" in 1965
In 1915, D.W. Griffith directed the controversial and racist film, The Birth of a Nation. The main character Gus is portrayed as a black brute by a white man in blackface. The film perceives black skin as a threat to white womanhood.
Nina Simone performs the song "Brown Baby" for the Dutch television program, "Nina Simone" in 1965
In Sirk's 1959 film, Imitation of Life, there were several choices made to purposefully make Mahalia Jackson look unflattering and grainy. The lights were different at the front of the church, Jackson was shot from different angles, and there was a different lens used for this close-up scene.