b'No matter how many tickets we buy, or how many hours we watch, Black Americans still have very little influence over what film or television gets made - or how it portrays us. The images of Black people pumped out to the mainstream range from affirming to annoying to actively damaging. Morehouse\\u2019s Dr. Stephane Dunn helps us unpack how we got here. She is one of the founding members of Morehouse\\u2019s Cinema, Television, & Emerging Media Studies Program, serves as its program director, and takes us from "Birth of a Nation" to "Good Times" to Tyler Perry.\\n\\xa0\\nBlack History Year is produced by PushBlack, the nation\\u2019s largest non-profit Black media company. Obviously, the power that comes from knowing our history is important to you. PushBlack exists because we saw we had to take this into our own hands. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at BlackHistoryYear.com. Most people do 5 of 10 bucks a month, but everything makes a difference. Thanks for supporting the work. Production support from Mikel Ellcessor and Jessica Rugh Frantz from Limina House and Sasha Kai Parker as editor/sound designer, with the PushBlack team: Tareq Alani, Brooke Brown, Eskedar Getahun, Abeni Jones, Patrick Sanders, and Cydney Smith.\\n\\xa0\\nUseful links:\\nThey Set Us Up to Fail\\u2019: Black Directors of the \\u201990s Speak Out\\nHow John Singleton Made History as the Oscars\\u2019 First Black Best Director Nominee\\nCharles D. King\'s Media Production Company Macro Puts Diversity First\\n\\xa0\\n\\n \\nTo learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy\\n \\n Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices'