Introduction

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Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898)

Theme Overview

"History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history."—James Baldwin, 1980 [1]

The first of Regeneration’s seven galleries, “Introduction,” offers visitors a contemplative gloss on the exhibition’s broader themes through a quartet of moments: a quote, a work of contemporary art, and two versions of the same short film.

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Bert Williams and Odessa Warren Grey in Lime Kiln Club Field Day (dir. Edwin Middleton, T. Hays Hunter, 1913), film stills. Courtesy Museum of Modern Art.

Early Cinema, 1896–19152

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