Sure Boss I'd Still Love Ya If You Was A Woim

Gordon Parks captured the Jim Crow South with a quiet, devastating clarity—using his camera as both witness and weapon. Through intimate portraits and everyday scenes, he exposed the cruelty of segregation not with sensationalism but with humanity, dignity, and truth. Parks showed Black life in the South as it was lived: tender, resilient, disciplined, and determined, even under oppressive laws. His photographs didn’t just document injustice—they challenged America to see what it preferred to ignore.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

I don’t know how up on film history you are but what’s widely considered the first zombie movie (albeit it never uses the word zombie), Night of the Living Dead, has the heroic lead Ben played by a Black actor, Duane Jones. It came out in 1968 and Ben wasn’t written to be Black, but George Romero just ended up casting him because Jones gave the best audition (and he is really incredible, this is a favorite film of mine and his performance is a big reason). Obviously though, because of the casting choice of Ben (in addition to the era in which the film was made) the lenses you can analyze it through increase (with the way the other characters treat him despite the fact that he’s the only one actively thinking and planning and being competent, and also the ending hits in a different way as examples). One of my favorite horror heroes honestly.

He also decided how the movie would end for his character.

Spoilers for the end of Night of the Living Dead: