Floyd Webb is the curator of the Black Actors in Foreign Cinema screening series, co-presented by nonprofit media arts organization Chicago Filmmakers and his company, the Blacknuss Network.
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Remembering Triad Radio, where the usual was unusual
Triad Radio, Chicago’s pioneering experiment in commercial free-form radio, left the airwaves in 1977. Now longtime program director Saul Smaizys is moving its archives online.
Posted inFilm
Superfly rolls back the clock on African-American movie heroes
Cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest returns to louse up the Black Panther era.
Posted inArts & Culture
What happened to A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 masterpiece, A Raisin in the Sun, is still a potent indictment.