By Dominique Brown ’17 Released in 1972, in the wake of major advances in the African-American freedom struggle, Buck and The Preacher is considered the first African-American western film. It tells the forgotten story of free black pioneer families, recently released from slavery, who settle in the American West. By adapting the western genre to tell this story, a genre particularly associated with white male … Continue reading Sidney Poitier’s Buck and the Preacher