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Boston-based Director Thato Rantao Mwosa’s “Memoirs of a Black Girl.” The coming-of-age film was featured in the Boston Globe’s Black History Month Film Festival. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Roxbury coming-of-age film celebrating Black girlhood featured in Boston Globe film festival

Ramsey Khalifeh February 10, 2021
The Boston Globe's "Black History Month Film Festival" featured Thato Rantao Mwosa's "Memoirs of a Black Girl" — a coming-of-age film made to be representative of Mwosa's students in Roxbury.
Boston University’s Cinema and Media Studies Program discussed “Black Girl” on Monday in the second installation of its “Protest Cinema” film series. COURTESY OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES PROGRAM

Themes of protest draw link between decades-old films and present day movements

Chloe McKim Jepsen October 21, 2020

In the wake of a reinvigorated Black Lives Matter movement, Boston University’s Cinema and Media Studies Program focused this semester’s film series discussion on “Protest Cinema.” The series...

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