Though they go by different names, almost every major streaming service has some type of “Black film” collection, often promoted during the month of February or, during 2020’s Black Lives Matter ...

Many questions pushed Maya Cade to create the Black Film Archive website, a new, curated streaming guide of Black cinema spanning 1915 through 1979: What films belong here? How can I present it in a ...

Streaming platforms abound with homogeny. I used to scroll them seemingly endlessly, looking for icons with faces that looked like mine. The irony of erasure is that you can’t unsee your own ...

When Maya Cade founded her meticulously curated database of Black films from 1915 to 1979, she addressed a community need with love. In 2020, shortly after the murder of George Floyd and the wave of ...

In 2020, a series of insurrections reverberated out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, following the murder of George Floyd. The uprisings enlivened many communities facing the harsh grips of a global ...

“It’s as if television, media, and filmmaking are becoming manifest destiny in the wrong ways,” says Maya Cade, founder of the Black Film Archive. “And there's nothing sadder.” Of course, this isn’t ...