The pathmakers : Gordon Parks, Melvin Van Peebles
The visionary actors : Ossie Davis, Sidney Poitier
Black urban action films and mainstream images : Gordon Parks Jr., Ivan Dixon, Fred Williamson, Hugh A. Robertson, Ron O'Neal, Gilbert Moses, Raymond St. Jacques
Black sensibilities and mainstream images : Berry Gordy Jr., Stan Lathan, Jamaa Fanaka
Michael Schultz : the crossover king
Spike Lee : the independent auteur
Keeping it real (reel) : black dramatic visions : Charles Burnett, John Singleton, Matty Rich, Mario Van Peebles, Ernest Dickerson, Albert and Allen Hughes, Doug McHenry, David Clark Johnson, Preston A. Whitmore II, Tim Reid, Robert Patton-Spruill, Darin Scott, Hype Williams
And still they rise : black women directors : Euzhan Palcy, Julie Dash, Leslie Harris, Darnell Martin, Kasi Lemmons, Millicent Shelton, Troy Beyer, Cheryl Dunye, Maya Angelou
Not without laughter : directors of comedy and romance : Oz Scott, Topper Carew, Richard Pryor, Prince, Robert Townsend, Eddie Murphy, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Wendell B. Harris Jr., Reginald Hudlin, Martin Lawrence, Theodore Witcher, George Tillman Jr., Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Christopher Scott Cherot
Off the hook : comedy and romance with a hip-hop flavor : Reginald Hudlin, James Bond III, George Jackson, Rusty Cundieff, F. Gary Gray, Paris Barclay, Lionel C. Martin, Ice Cube
Redefining crossover films : Kevin Hooks, Bill Duke, Carl Franklin, Thomas Carter, Forest Whitaker, F. Gary Gray, Antoine Fuqua.