Queen Latifah has declared she has mixed emotions about the decision by HBO Max executives to reinstate Gone With the Wind.The movie was pulled from the streaming service earlier this month after film critics suggested the racist and slavery undertones of the story were inappropriate following weeks of Black Lives Matter protests.Do the Right Thing filmmaker Spike Lee then urged HBO Max bosses to reconsider, and the film will now return to the site with an introduction from Jacqueline Stewart, a Cinema and Media Studies professor at the University of Chicago in Illinois.
Fans of the 1939 film often consider it a civil rights success story due to Hattie McDaniel’s Oscar win, which made her the first black American to win the award.But.
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