Oscar Micheaux

Changing history with filmmaking: here are 10 movies you probably didn’t know were directed by black filmmakers

Centuries before Oscar Micheaux, the first black filmmaker ventured onto the scene, the movie industry was as segregated as bus rides or gaining admission to a predominantly white school in the United States. Hollywood was controlled by white promoters and actors who decided which content could be on the big screens. There was a deliberate…