Movie night at Woodrow Wilson's White House
The rare and extraordinary sighting of a Black filmmaker
The imitation game
A most peculiar kind of fame
An interlude
1933, Babyface & Chico
Flashback, The 1939 Academy Awards
Dangerous love, starring Inger Stevens, Sammy Davis Jr., James Edwards, Ike Jones, and Dorothy Dandridge
The pricey Black movie that vanished, and how it came to be
Two cool cats with Caribbean roots disrupt Hollywood
Flashback, 1964 Academy Awards
The hustlers, detectives, and pimps who stunned Hollywood
Foxy Brown arrives, vanishes, and gets resurrected
Flashback, 1972 Academy Awards
Berry Gordy dares to make movies
Kunta Kinte seizes the moment
Aiming a camera in Brooklyn
The blackout that haunted a decade
An interlude
The ghost of Sidney
The reckoning
The front page
Moving in the Moonlight
The scourged back.