MLK Jr. Day with Black leaders Jacqueline Stewart and Anita Hill

“I came to the [Academy] museum because it has a mission that aligns with the goals that I had as a film scholar, which is to make film history as inclusive as possible,” says Jacqueline Stewart.

“I came to the [Academy] museum because it has a mission that aligns with the goals that I had as a film scholar, which is to make film history as inclusive as possible,” says Jacqueline Stewart. Photo by MacArthur Foundation (CC BY 4.0).

On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Press Play re-airs two interviews from 2021 with inspiring Black women: Film historian Jacqueline Stewart, who’s the head of programming at LA’s Academy Museum, plus Anita Hill, author of “Believing.”

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Credits

Host:

Madeleine Brand

Producers:

Sarah Sweeney, Angie Perrin, Michell Eloy, Amy Ta, Brian Hardzinski, Bennett Purser, Robin Estrin