Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences elects first black president
((And it only took 86 years!! 
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'Oscars: Cheryl Boone Isaacs elected Academy president'
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/07/30/oscars-cheryl-boone-isaacs-elected-academy-president/
Veteran marketing executive Cheryl Boone Isaacs was elected Tuesday night by the Academy’s board of governors to head the organization for the next year. Among her first responsibilities as president will be the selection of a host for the March 2 Oscar telecast.
...Boone Isaacs is a pioneering figure in her own right, becoming the first black president of the Academy and the third woman to serve in the position, following Bette Davis (who served for a partial term in 1941) and screenwriter Fay Kanin (who served from 1979 to 1983, and died this year at age 95.)
Does this mean that we no longer have to wait every 7 years for an all black film to come out?
That black women will start to get actual REGULAR WORK in American media that doesn't involve portraying them as servants to white people or as their spiritual saviors?
This woman has a HUGE job already, but if she can do anything to alter the really skewed, limited, clueless, maddening portrayals of people of color (including POC from other countries) in modern movies I will literally be forever in her debt, especially if that trickles down to magazines and tv shows too.
In Related News:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/essay-the-butler-finally-puts-the-civil-rights-movement-on-screen-will-others-follow/2013/08/13/0cb0bf42-0363-11e3-88d6-d5795fab4637_story.html
Over the past several decades, important feature films have been made about most of the historical and cultural touchstones of post-World War II America, from the Vietnam War and John F. Kennedy’s assassination to Watergate and women’s liberation. But there’s been one glaring exception: The breadth and depth of the civil rights movement — the most influential social and political force of the 20th century, not just on American life but throughout the world — has never been represented in the dominant narrative medium of our age.
Until now.
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Good for her! 
Although to be fair, I think the primary story ended with his death in 1965 but the very end jumped to the "present" (1992) with the release of Nelson Mandela from prison and tied that in with the civil rights backdrop of the film.
You cannot talk about Muhammed Ali and not talk about the Civil Rights Movement. Also "Mississippi Burning." I guess the folks at Washington Post must have forgotten about those. But the handful of movies is paltry considering how vast and important the movement was and continues to be. I'll never forget George Lucas (THE George Lucas, creator of "Star Wars" talking about the hard time he was having getting a movie on the Buffalo Soldiers made. When George Lucas has a hard time getting black movies made, EVERYBODY should quickly realize that there is a problem.
The fact that movie reviewers forgot about that handful of Civil Rights movies truly shows how little the issue has been covered in Hollywood. The good bit about that link is that it mentions some of the movies that are being made and coming out soon that also touch on the era. All I have to say is ABOUT FUCKING TIME.