One could rattle off all the statistics about blacks not doing so well.

But what about blacks, all of those who support him because he, too, is black?

One young woman said she wanted to support movies about blacks.

"Has anyone ever told a white playwright to write about blacks?"

People do not know a lot of facts about blacks, he added.

I'm not going to just write about blacks in sports.

The fair will also highlight books by and about blacks.

But those things did not tell much about free blacks.

"Were you aware of what he thought about Asians and blacks?"

By the 1920s, more than thirty film production companies had been set up to produce films about blacks and their lives.