Black Cinema - Not Film Noir

Gettysburg College has an impressive collection of films, including African and African American, at Musselman Library.� The collection includes documentary and feature length films by African and African American directors, and about African peoples globally.�

Black Drama, from the Alexander Street Press, contains the full text of plays written by more than 100 playwrights from English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, other African Diaspora countries, as well as North America, from the mid-1800s to the present, and is also available via the library's online databases page under African American Studies.�

Shuttles in the rocking loom of history,
the dark ships move, the dark ships move,
their bright ironical names
like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth;
plough through thrashing glister toward
fata morgana's lucent melting shore,
weave toward New World littorals that are
mirage and myth and actual shore. - Robert Hayden, "Middle Passage"

"After I die, I want a big signboard placed in front of my house
�with the words 'Theatre was born here.' " - Gibson Kente

Any form of art is a form of power, it has impact,
it can affect change--it can not only move us, it makes us move.
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