Season 11: Episode 6 | Casting Cora
A short take on Thuso Mbedu from South Africa who was cast as a 15-year-old enslaved black girl named Cora in the film adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.
Seasons 11: Episode 5 | Casting Bias
A short take about the ways movie producers light-wash black characters.
Season 11: Episode 4 | Black Diaspora and Casting Possibilities
A short take on some varied possibilities of black casting in films adapted from African American novels.
Season 10: Episode 1 | African American Literature, Film Adaptations, and Berry Jenkins
A short take on African American novels adapted to film by Barry Jenkins.
Season 8: Episode 7 | The Most African American Literature Courses in the Country
A short take on the large number of African American literature courses offered at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Season 8: Episode 6 | August Wilson
A short take on August Wilson and film adaptations of his work.
Season 7: Episode 7 | Waiting to Exhale Film Adaptation
A short take on the adaption of the novel Waiting to Exhale into a film.
Season 7: Episode 6 | Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Midnight Angels
A short take on how Ta-Nehisi Coates envisions a team of women special forces in the comic book Black Panther.
Season 7: Episode 2 | Oprah Winfrey, Film, and African American Literature
A short take on Oprah Winfrey’s contributions to film and African American literature.
Season 2: Episode 6 | Ernest Gaines and Film
A brief narrative about Ernest Gaines’s novel The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman being adapted into a movie and becoming an instant classic.