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As she stepped onto the red carpet of The Color Purple revival in Beverly Hills on Wednesday night, Oprah showcased her very svelte physique. After decades of yo-dieting and ruthless bodyshaming, the TV icon, 69, recently addressed her eating habits. She insists that her dramatic slim down isn't due to medications like Ozempic or Wegovy, as she considers them to be the 'easy way out.'

Contrary to popular belief, Black cinema was rich and plentiful before the burgeoning of blaxploitation films in the late 1970s and '70s. "Is That Black Enough For You?! "What" a recent Netflix documentary that premiered on September 11th, not only gives these films their flowers, but it also highlights the cultural revolution behind Black cinema, which has often gone unheard. "Is That Black Enough For You?" says archived footage and interviews with Black film legends such as Whoopi Goldberg, Laurence Fishburne, Samuel L. Jackson, and others. Elvis Mitchell, a filmmaker and historian, explores the splendor of Black creators in film, from the beginnings of the 1900s to the 1970s — from their roots in the early 1900s to the modern era of the '70s. Mitchell tells POPSUGAR that it took him nearly 23 years to bring his kaleidoscopic film to life. Alain Locke's lectures at Harvard University in 2002 sparked a lot of his research. Nearly two decades later, he worked with filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, David Fincher, and Netflix to inform a crucial part of Black cinematic history that he wasn't told.