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Noble Johnson was the first famous Black actor under the classic Hollywood studio system, but he reached his success playing characters of every race but his own. In order to play Black roles, he created a groundbreaking film company in L.A. that made some of the earliest Black produced films for Black audiences.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will release its second "The Academy Museum Podcast" season, "Close Up on Casting" on June 15.
UChicago film scholar Allyson Nadia Field helped identify silent-era cinema fragment of earliest known Black-produced film.
Caddoo is a professor in the Media School and teaches courses on Black film.
What to know about Sarah Dye, her business Schooner Creek Farms and the controversy at the Bloomington Community Farmers' Market.