Race, Film and Culture

Description

Associated Program:
John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
Speakers:
Wesley Morris
Kellie Carter Jackson

Harvard University Prize Fellow Brandon M. Terry moderated a John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on Race, Film, and Culture with Pulitzer Prize winner and current Grantland writer Wesley Morris and African and African American Studies Harvard College Fellow Kellie Carter Jackson. The panelists discussed the depiction of men and women of color in popular film and the struggles they faced to headline big budget cinema.