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Black love has always existed. Something Good – Negro Kiss, the first Black kiss on screen, is now featured at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

A silent short shot in 1898, "Something Good - Negro Kiss" is the first film featuring footage of African Americans showing intimacy.

Now open in Detroit, "Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971" showcases nearly 200 rare props, posters, photographs and more

The Max Factor makeup called "Minstrel" and what banal objects reveal. Plus, "The Outsiders" on stage and art reality on TV, in our weekly arts newsletter

"Something Good – Negro Kiss," is a recently rediscovered 1898 silent short film featuring the earliest on-screen kiss between Black actors. Its recent rediscovery begs the question — what other lost pieces of Black film history could be out there, waiting to be found?

Allyson Nadia Field, a film scholar at the University of Chicago, was one of the experts last fall who was able to trace the Chicago origins of "Something Good-Negro Kiss," a recently discovered film clip depicting an early onscreen kiss between two African-Americans, likely shot in 1898.

In January 1942, Lena Horne signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She wasn’t the first Black performer to sign with a major studio, but it

A new exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures highlights how Black cinema, despite the challenges of American racism, has carved its own paths throughout history.

“Regeneration” is a worthwhile look at stars and films, but it presents a tale of difficulty and triumph that doesn’t always engage with Hollywood’s history of racism.

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