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The late artist Nelson Stevens once said that the murals he painted in Springfield in the 1970s were like “creating stained-glass windows for our community.”
Beauty and excellence are among the themes for the Boston Globe’s fifth annual Black History Month Film Festival, which continues with in-person and virtual events through the end of the month.
On Thursday, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema hosts a special 25th anniversary screening of Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “Love & Basketball,” the beloved romantic sports drama starring Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan. Next Wednesday, A Beautiful Resistance Live, a celebration anchored by Globe culture columnist (and the founding curator of the BHM film fest) Jeneé Osterheldt, takes place at the Museum of Science, part of the institution’s yearlong focus on “Being Human.”
Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan in “Love & Basketball.”Sidney Baldwin/New Line Cinema
With help from partners including Lisa and Alison Simmons at the Roxbury International Film Festival, other festival events include an invitation to stream “Three Kings,” a new documentary about the three Dominican superstars — Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz, and Manny Ramirez — who helped lead the Red Sox to their historic 2004 World Series championship, and a panel discussion on the short documentaries collected in “Legacies: Stories of Black History in the 413.” Those short films about Black Americans in Western Massachusetts include “AfriCOBRA & Nelson Stevens: Art for the People,” which captures a community reclamation project revolving around the work of the late University of Massachusetts Amherst professor, featuring his friend and former colleague, the Roxbury-based multimedia artist Napoleon Jones-Henderson.
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“So often we’ve seen Black history as a caveat to American history, when in fact we are very central to that history,” said Erika Slocumb, a history scholar who hosted the “Legacies” shorts block for New England Public Media, with support from Mass Humanities. “It’s important to not only see ourselves on major media platforms, but also on platforms where the history is highlighted very specifically, in an intentional way. It’s an opportunity to witness the multitudes of Black experience.”
For more information on the Black History Month Film Festival, visit the website at bhmff25.splashthat.com.
James Sullivan can be reached at jamesgsullivan@gmail.com.
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