Reframing the Narrative and Centering the Global Majority

The challenge of the military, prison, patriarchy, industrial , capitalist complex is that it cannibalizes and commodities everything it touches moving as if it is an initiator without any attribution to source. Micheaux's Media Mansion cannot re-invent anything but will attribute, align and uplift those who are and have been doing the work to center the global majority as protagonist's in the new world we are building.
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MICHEAUX'S MEDIA MANSION

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101 Essential Black Films

We honor of the late, great, African traveller, educator, writer and scholar, Runoko Rashidi by showcasing content from his massive Global African Presence catalog. These articles, lecture notes and photo essays detail the longstanding history of African people in places you wouldn't expect them, but should.
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101 Essential Pan-African Films

You should know Charles White, because you probably already do. You have seen his works and probably didn’t know it was his. Dr. Greg Carr pays tribute to one of the most important artists in American history. From his murals to his lithographs, he taught a generation to see Black people. 


Black Films as Protest

Iconic scholar, thinker and Grammy Award-winner, Dr. Cornel West joins Knarrative in part one of a series of conversations centered on the power of Black music in our historical freedom struggles. Prof. Hunter and Dr. West examine the musical legacy of Curtis Mayfield.

About Oscar Micheaux

Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (b. January 2, 1884 – d. March 25, 1951) was an African-American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent producer of race film, and has been described as "the most successful African-American filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century". He produced both silent films and sound films.

Oscar Micheaux Filmography

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Within Our Gates (1919)
A Silent Film by Oscar Micheaux

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Underworld (1937)
A Film By Oscar Micheaux

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Swing! (1938)
A Film by Oscar Micheaux

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God's Stepchildren (1938) 
A Film By Oscar Micheaux

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Ten Minutes To Live (1932)
A Film by Oscar Micheaux

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The Girl From Chicago (1932)
A Film by Oscar Micheaux

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Murder In Harlem (1935)
A Film by Oscar Micheaux

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Lying Lips (1939)
A Film by Oscar Micheaux

“We want to see our lives dramatized on the screen as we are living it, the same as other people the world over” 

OSCAR MICHEAUX