THE BLACK PRESS: SOLDIERS WITHOUT SWORDS(1999)

86 min

Last year, Stanley Nelson’s film The Black Panthers was on the DOC NYC Short List. This year, as he receives a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Visionaries Tribute, we bring back his breakthrough film The Black Press, which traces the history of African-American journalism. Throughout the 20th century, papers like the Chicago Defender and Pittsburgh Courier catered to a community ignored by white publishers. Nelson traces the rise and fall of this alternative press.

Director: Stanley Nelson

Producer: Stanley Nelson Jr.

Cinematographer: Rick Butler, Robert Shepard

Editor: Lewis Erskine

Music: Ron Carter

Language: English

Country: USA

Year: 1999

African American

Journalism

Race

Retrospective

THE BLACK PRESS: SOLDIERS WITHOUT SWORDS(1999)

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