Written by Nikki IgboFebruary 2, 2022February 8, 2022

BLACK FILMMAKING IN THE 1910s: “A Black Sherlock Holmes,” “A Reckless Rover,” and “Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled”

I watched three of Ebony Film Corporation’s projects that came after their staff change: A Black Sherlock Holmes (1918), A Reckless Rover (1918), and Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled (1918). Each one starred Sam (Samuel) Robinson, an actor who was born in 1888 in Richmond, Virginia and died in Chicago in 1971 just 7 days shy of his 83rd birthday.

Written by Nikki IgboFebruary 1, 2022February 1, 2022

BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2022: BLACK FILM-MAKING THROUGH THE DECADES

This Black History Month, I’ve tasked myself with watching each film in the Black Film Archive and then putting the films in context of what was happening in the Black History as these movies were being produced.

Written by Nikki IgboMarch 1, 2021March 1, 2021

WHM -Westside’s Black Women Makers: Delilah L. Beasley

I did not know that I’d be blogging during Women’s History Month this year because I wasn’t sure I had the bandwidth to do so. I barely made it through Black History Month while juggling freelance assignments, homeschooling a kindergartener and preschooler, and independently managing a home. But I could not simply stop learning about […]

The Black History Month Challenge

An Annual Deep Dive Into Blackness

BLACK FILMMAKING IN THE 1910s: “A Black Sherlock Holmes,” “A Reckless Rover,” and “Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled”

BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2022: BLACK FILM-MAKING THROUGH THE DECADES

WHM -Westside’s Black Women Makers: Delilah L. Beasley