{"id":18936,"date":"2021-02-04T18:50:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T18:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoklahomaeagle.net\/?p=18936"},"modified":"2021-02-04T18:50:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T18:50:36","slug":"28-films-to-watch-during-black-history-month-that-arent-about-black-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/2021\/02\/04\/28-films-to-watch-during-black-history-month-that-arent-about-black-trauma\/","title":{"rendered":"28 Films To Watch During Black History Month That Aren’t About Black Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHollywood is full of movies about slavery, segregation, and\u00a0the Black struggle<\/a>, and while these films can serve as important educational tools \u2014 especially during\u00a0Black History Month<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 it is important to step back and remember that films about trauma are not the be-all and end-all of Black entertainment.
\nBlack people deserve\u00a0happy-go-lucky romances<\/a>, cultural explorations, and cheesy coming-of-age movies, too! So, if you’re looking for a way to ring in Black History Month 2021, read\u00a0books by Black authors<\/a>,\u00a0follow Black influencers<\/a>, and check out this list of amazing Black films, minus the trauma.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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www.popsugar.com By JORDAN LEWIS   Hollywood is full of movies about slavery, segregation, and\u00a0the Black struggle, and while these films can serve as important educational tools \u2014 especially during\u00a0Black History Month\u00a0\u2014 it is important to step back and remember that films about trauma are not the be-all and end-all of Black entertainment. Black people deserve\u00a0happy-go-lucky…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,103,105],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-18936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-featured","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18936"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willoughbyavenue.com\/eagle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=18936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}