IOWA CITY — Taking Brazil’s new Black cinema as its point of departure, “Frequencias: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora” brings together filmmakers, artists, scholars and critics ...

With an estimated 6 million Afro-Latinos living in the United States — and many more throughout the globe — it’s important for stories on the small and large screens to represent this demographic.

Recently, Spike Lee, the father of the modern Black Cinema movement in America sat down for a talk at the main branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to hear the living ...

The door of no return; the reinvention of belonging; Blackness in Brazil; these topics and more were the focus of this year’s Obermann Humanities Symposium. Presented in Iowa City by the Obermann ...