Business Insider spoke with Samantha Sheppard, an assistant film professor at Cornell University with an academic focus on Black cultural production and African American cinema, about how films can help people understand anti-racism.
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Out of all the classes I took, the film ones always had the best discussions.
— Austin Bunn, Associate Professor, Koenig Jacobson Sesquicentennial Fellow
I like to build from true stories. I think that comes from my experience as a journalist. I believe in the real world—there’s something important about understanding the facts and the honest genuine narrative and then elaborating from there.
