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'''Jacqueline Najuma Stewart'''<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-fall-preview-2016-stewart-movies-profile-ae-0904-20160831-column.html|title=Jacqueline Stewart, champion for African-American cinema|first=Michael|last=Phillips|author-link=Michael Phillips (critic)|date=September 2, 2016|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|access-date=November 1, 2017|url-status=live|archive-date=November 24, 2019|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20191124134116/https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-fall-preview-2016-stewart-movies-profile-ae-0904-20160831-column.html}}</ref> is an American author,cinema universitystudies professor,scholar and television host for [[Turner Classic Movies]]. InA 2022professor at the [[University of Chicago]], she wasalso appointedserved as inaugural artistic director, and then president for the [[Academy Museum of Motion Pictures]]. from 2021 to 2024,<ref name="AcademyMuseum">{{cite press release |url=https://aframe.oscars.org/news/post/the-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures-jacqueline-stewart-director-president |title=The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Appoints Jacqueline Stewart as New Director and President |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=6 July 2022 |website=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |agency=Academy Museum of Motion Pictures |access-date=11 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220712050518/https://aframe.oscars.org/news/post/the-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures-jacqueline-stewart-director-president |archive-date=12 July 2022 |quote=The Board of Trustees of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced the appointment of Jacqueline Stewart as the director and president of the institution. Stewart has served as chief artistic and programming officer of the Academy Museum since 2020. |url-status=live}}</ref><ref Shename=Feinberg>{{Cite hasnews served|last=Feinberg |first=Scott |date=2024-05-29 |title=Jacqueline Stewart Exits and Amy Homma Enters as [[UniversityAcademy ofMuseum Chicago]]Chief, professorRandy ofHaberkamp cinemaRetiring studies|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jacqueline-stewart-out-academy-museum-chief-1235910700/ |access-date=2024-07-25 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240529161636/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jacqueline-stewart-out-academy-museum-chief-1235910700/ |archive-date=2024-05-29 |url-status=live}}</ref> before returning to her professorship at the university.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cms.uchicago.edu/faculty/stewart|title=Jacqueline Stewart—Department of Cinema and Media Studies|publisher=[[University of Chicago]]|access-date=November 1, 2017|archive-date=April 24, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200424174938/https://cms.uchicago.edu/profiles/jacqueline-stewart|url-status=live}}</ref> andShe has served as director of the nonprofit arts organization, Black Cinema House.,<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.grahamfoundation.org/events_archive/2016|title=Afronauts with Frances Bodomo and Jacqueline Stewart|agency=[[Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts|Graham Foundation]]|access-date=November 1, 2017|archive-date=December 11, 2019|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20191211094101/http://www.grahamfoundation.org/events_archive/2016|url-status=live|quote=Jacqueline Stewart is ... co-curator of the L.A. Rebellion project at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Her film work in Chicago includes founding the South Side Home Movie Project and serving as Curator of Black Cinema House, a neighborhood-based film exhibition venue run by Theaster Gates' Rebuild Foundation.}}</ref> and as a member of the [[National Film Preservation Board]].
Stewart is an elected member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], and a [[MacArthur Fellow]].
==Biography==
===Early years===
Stewart was born and raised in [[Hyde Park, Chicago|Hyde Park]], within [[South Side, Chicago]].<ref name="EmmyMagazine">{{cite magazine |last=Grifiths |first=John |url=https://www.emmys.com/news/features/class-acts |title=Class Acts |website=Emmy Magazine |issue=3 |date=2020 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240424055542/https://www.emmys.com/news/features/class-acts |archive-date=April 24, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> During her childhood, she remembered her aunt Constance introducing her to classic films on television. She stated, "...I always stayed up really late with her watching black and white films. She would talk to me during the commercial breaks about all the stars and the theaters that she used to go to. I was fascinated by the alternative world that I saw, the way that people talked and the way they dressed."<ref>{{cite interview |last=Maine |first=Brooke |url=https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/jacqueline-stewart-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures-interview-2022 |title=Jacqueline Stewart Wants to Show You Another Side of Hollywood |website=[[W (magazine)|W]] |date=October 17, 2022 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017132222/https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/jacqueline-stewart-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures-interview-2022 |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
She graduated from [[Kenwood Academy|Kenwood Academy High School]]. Afterwards, she enrolled into [[Stanford University]], intent on becoming a journalist. There, she watched [[Spike Lee]]'s ''[[She's Gotta Have It]]'' (1986). Impressed, she studied Lee's career and [[feminist film theory]], inon which she based her [[Bachelor of Arts|B. A.]] thesis on.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Alexander |first=Sonya |date=2021-06-10 |title=From Hyde Park to Hollywood |language=en-US |work=South Side Weekly |url=https://southsideweekly.com/from-hyde-park-to-hollywood/ |access-date=2021-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610202432/https://southsideweekly.com/from-hyde-park-to-hollywood/ |archive-date=2021-06-10 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1991, she graduated with a Bachelors in [[English literature|English]]. After this, Stewart enrolled as a graduate student at the [[University of Chicago]] (UC). Stewart reflected, "Film studies was just being formalized there and they hired a scholar named [[Miriam Hansen]] who wound up being my dissertation advisor and my mentor. And she specialized in silent cinema."<ref name="AWFJ_January2022">{{cite web |last=Ferdinand |first=Marilyn |url=https://awfj.org/blog/2022/01/01/spotlight-january-2022-jacqueline-stewart-film-scholar-archivist-and-curator/ |title=SPOTLIGHT January 2022: Jacqueline Stewart, Film Scholar, Archivist, and Curator |website=[[Alliance of Women Film Journalists]] |date=January 1, 2022 |access-date=May 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104222047/https://awfj.org/blog/2022/01/01/spotlight-january-2022-jacqueline-stewart-film-scholar-archivist-and-curator/ |archive-date=January 4, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1993, she graduated with a [[Master's degree]], and in 1998 with a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]], both in English from the University of Chicago.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://news.uchicago.edu/profile/jacqueline-stewart |title=Jacqueline Stewart |website=University of Chicago |date=n.d. |access-date=June 15, 2020 |archive-date=May 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200502180658/https://news.uchicago.edu/profile/jacqueline-stewart |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Fluker |first=Dominque |url=https://www.essence.com/culture/jacqueline-stewart-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures/ |title=Jacqueline Stewart, Director And President Of The Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures, Leads With Purpose |website=[[Essence (magazine)|Essence]] |date=March 17, 2024 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319225252/https://www.essence.com/culture/jacqueline-stewart-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures/ |archive-date=March 19, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>
===Career===
SheStewart taught at the University of Chicago from 1999 to 2006, serving in the Department of English and on the Committee on Cinema & Media Studies.<ref name="MigratingtotheMovies" /> In 2006, she joined the DepartmentsDepartment of Radio/Television/Film, and the Department of African American Studies, at [[Northwestern University]] as an associate professor. She returned to the University of Chicago in 2013 as a professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies.<ref name="MacArthurFoundation">{{Cite web |title=Jacqueline Stewart |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2021/jacqueline-stewart |access-date=2021-09-29 |website=MacArthur Foundation |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210928163817/https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2021/jacqueline-stewart |archive-date=2021-09-28 |url-status=live}}</ref> During the fall of 2020, she began an extended leave from the University of Chicago after she was selected as the first artistic director for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.<ref name="StewartHeadstoLA">{{cite news |last=Phillips |first=Michael |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2020/10/19/chicagos-jacqueline-stewart-to-head-las-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures/ |title=Chicago's Jacqueline Stewart to head LA's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures |work=Chicago Tribune |date=October 19, 2020 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515024314/https://www.chicagotribune.com/2020/10/19/chicagos-jacqueline-stewart-to-head-las-academy-museum-of-motion-pictures/ |archive-date=May 15, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> She returned to the university in 2024 after also serving as the museum's president.<ref name=Feinberg/>
In 2018, she was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jacqueline Stewart |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/jacqueline-stewart |access-date=2021-07-07 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191130221017/https://www.amacad.org/person/jacqueline-stewart |archive-date=2019-11-30 |url-status=live}}</ref> and in 2021, she was awarded a [[MacArthur Fellowship]].<ref name="MacArthurFoundation" />
In 2005, Stewart published her first book titled ''Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity''. The ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' reported she had spent a decade researching the topic, which focused on the role [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood cinema]] played in both influencing and reflecting the [[social mobility]] of Black Americans, particularly during the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] when they began relocating to the [[Northeastern United States|Northeast]] after living in the [[Southern United States|South]].<ref name="MigratingtotheMovies" />
Ten years later, in 2015, she co-authored the book ''L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema'', chronicling the [[L.A. Rebellion|film movement]], with then-[[UCLA Film and Television Archive]] director Jan-Christopher Horak and then-[[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] cinema studies professor Allyson Nadia Field.<ref>{{cite webbook |url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520284685/la-rebellion |title='L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema |websiteyear=[[University of California Press]]2015 |dateisbn=2015978-0-520-28468-5 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240402222811/https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520284685/la-rebellion |archive-date=April 2, 2024 |url-status=live |last1=Field |first1=Allyson |last2=Horak |first2=Jan-Christopher |last3=Stewart |first3=Jacqueline Najuma |publisher=University of California Press}}</ref> In 2021, she published her third book ''William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission'', a biography of the [[William Greaves|the documentary filmmaker]], with Scott MacDonald, a professor at [[Hamilton College]].<ref>{{cite webbook |url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/william-greaves/9780231199599 |title=William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission |websitepublisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |dateyear=20202021 |isbn=978-0-231-55319-3 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601213447/https://cup.columbia.edu/book/william-greaves/9780231199599 |archive-date=June 1, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> For several years, Stewart has been researching for a biography on actor–director [[Spencer Williams Jr.|Spencer Williams]].<ref name="AWFJ_January2022" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://blackfilm.uchicago.edu/research_projects/spencer_williams.shtml |title=University of Chicago Research Projects — Spencer Williams |date=2004 |access-date=May 16, 2024 |website=University of Chicago |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129220411/https://blackfilm.uchicago.edu/research_projects/spencer_williams.shtml |archive-date=November 29, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2005, sheStewart founded the South Side Home Movie Project, which collects, preserves, as a cultural and historical resource, the [[16 mm film|16 mm]], [[8 mm film|8 mm]], and [[Super 8 film|Super 8]] homemade films of residents of [[South Side, Chicago]], together with [[Oral history|oral histories]] of the creators. The archive is headquartered in [[Evanston, Illinois]], but after Stewart left for Northwestern University, she continued to collaborate with the university's Film Studies Center, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, and several Chicago graduate students to continue the project.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About South Side Home Movie Project |url=https://sshmp.uchicago.edu/our-story |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=South Side Home Movie Project |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517180715/https://sshmp.uchicago.edu/our-story |archive-date=2022-05-17 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Gibson |first=Lydialyle |url=https://magazine.uchicago.edu/0734/features/stewart.shtml |title=Cinéma vérité |magazine=University of Chicago Magazine |date=March–April 2007 |volume=99 |issue=4 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316211048/https://magazine.uchicago.edu/0734/features/stewart.shtml |archive-date=March 16, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2016, Stewart collaborated with Charles Musser on curating the DVD set ''[[Pioneers of African-American Cinema]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/top-chicago-critics-circle-awards-go-to-moonlight-la-la-land/|title=Top Chicago Critics Circle awards go to 'Moonlight,' 'La La Land'|first=Darel|last=Jevens |date=January 8, 2017|newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|access-date=November 1, 2017|archive-date=June 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615163521/https://chicago.suntimes.com/2017/1/8/18409622/top-chicago-critics-circle-awards-go-to-moonlight-la-la-land|url-status=live}}</ref> ▼
By 2020, she was a thirdthree-term appointee to the [[National Film Preservation Board]] (NFPB), which advises the [[Librarian of Congress]] on policy. She also chairschaired the NFPB Diversity Task Force, ensuring the selected films chosen for the [[National Film Registry]] reflect diversity and inclusion.<ref name=Daniels/><ref>{{cite news |last=King |first=Loren |url=https://www.motionpictures.org/2020/03/silent-sunday-nights-host-jacqueline-stewarts-easy-going-film-expertise/ |title=''Silent Sunday Nights'' Host Jacqueline Stewart's Easy Going Film Expertise |website=[[Motion Picture Association]] |date=March 24, 2020 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200424025133/https://www.motionpictures.org/2020/03/silent-sunday-nights-host-jacqueline-stewarts-easy-going-film-expertise/ |archive-date=April 24, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> ▼▲In 2005, she founded the South Side Home Movie Project, which collects, preserves, as a cultural and historical resource, the [[16 mm film|16 mm]], [[8 mm film|8 mm]], and [[Super 8 film|Super 8]] homemade films of residents of [[South Side, Chicago]], together with [[Oral history|oral histories]] of the creators. The archive is headquartered in [[Evanston, Illinois]], but after Stewart left for Northwestern University, she continued to collaborate with the university's Film Studies Center, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, and several Chicago graduate students to continue the project.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About South Side Home Movie Project |url=https://sshmp.uchicago.edu/our-story |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=South Side Home Movie Project |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517180715/https://sshmp.uchicago.edu/our-story |archive-date=2022-05-17 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Gibson |first=Lydialyle |url=https://magazine.uchicago.edu/0734/features/stewart.shtml |title=Cinéma vérité |magazine=University of Chicago Magazine |date=March–April 2007 |volume=99 |issue=4 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316211048/https://magazine.uchicago.edu/0734/features/stewart.shtml |archive-date=March 16, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2016, Stewart collaborated with Charles Musser on curating the DVD set ''[[Pioneers of African-American Cinema]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/top-chicago-critics-circle-awards-go-to-moonlight-la-la-land/|title=Top Chicago Critics Circle awards go to 'Moonlight,' 'La La Land'|first=Darel|last=Jevens |date=January 8, 2017|newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|access-date=November 1, 2017|archive-date=June 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615163521/https://chicago.suntimes.com/2017/1/8/18409622/top-chicago-critics-circle-awards-go-to-moonlight-la-la-land|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2018, she was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jacqueline Stewart |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/jacqueline-stewart |access-date=2021-07-07 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191130221017/https://www.amacad.org/person/jacqueline-stewart |archive-date=2019-11-30 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2021, she was awarded a [[MacArthur Fellows Program]].<ref name="MacArthurFoundation" /> Taking a sabbatical from the University of Chicago, in 2021, Stewart was appointed as the inaugural artistic director at the [[Academy Museum of Motion Pictures]].<ref name="StewartHeadstoLA" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Thompson |first=Anne |date=2020-10-20 |title=The Academy Museum Lucks Out with Chief Artistic Programmer Jacqueline Stewart |language=en |work=IndieWire |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2020/10/academy-museum-chief-artistic-programmer-jacqueline-stewart-1234593721/ |access-date=2021-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023111542/https://www.indiewire.com/2020/10/academy-museum-chief-artistic-programmer-jacqueline-stewart-1234593721/ |archive-date=2020-10-23 |url-status=live}}</ref> On July 6, 2022, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced Stewart's appointment as director and president of the institution.<ref name="AcademyMuseum" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Julia |date=2022-07-06 |title=The Academy Museum Names Jacqueline Stewart as New Leader |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/arts/academy-museum-jacqueline-stewart.html |access-date=2022-07-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706195010/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/arts/academy-museum-jacqueline-stewart.html |archive-date=2022-07-06 |issn=0362-4331 |url-status=live}}</ref > At the museum, she oversaw the opening of numerous exhibits, including its first permanent exhibit, and led the development of its first strategic plan. She stepped down in 2024 to return to the University of Chicago.<ref name=Feinberg/> ▼▲By 2020, she was a third-term appointee to the [[National Film Preservation Board]] (NFPB), which advises the [[Librarian of Congress]] on policy. She also chairs the NFPB Diversity Task Force, ensuring the selected films chosen for the [[National Film Registry]] reflect diversity and inclusion.<ref name=Daniels/><ref>{{cite news |last=King |first=Loren |url=https://www.motionpictures.org/2020/03/silent-sunday-nights-host-jacqueline-stewarts-easy-going-film-expertise/ |title=''Silent Sunday Nights'' Host Jacqueline Stewart's Easy Going Film Expertise |website=[[Motion Picture Association]] |date=March 24, 2020 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200424025133/https://www.motionpictures.org/2020/03/silent-sunday-nights-host-jacqueline-stewarts-easy-going-film-expertise/ |archive-date=April 24, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
====Television career ==== ▼▲In 2018, she was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jacqueline Stewart |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/jacqueline-stewart |access-date=2021-07-07 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191130221017/https://www.amacad.org/person/jacqueline-stewart |archive-date=2019-11-30 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2021, she was awarded a [[MacArthur Fellows Program]].<ref name="MacArthurFoundation" /> Taking a sabbatical from the University of Chicago, in 2021, Stewart was appointed as the inaugural artistic director at the [[Academy Museum of Motion Pictures]].<ref name="StewartHeadstoLA" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Thompson |first=Anne |date=2020-10-20 |title=The Academy Museum Lucks Out with Chief Artistic Programmer Jacqueline Stewart |language=en |work=IndieWire |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2020/10/academy-museum-chief-artistic-programmer-jacqueline-stewart-1234593721/ |access-date=2021-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023111542/https://www.indiewire.com/2020/10/academy-museum-chief-artistic-programmer-jacqueline-stewart-1234593721/ |archive-date=2020-10-23 |url-status=live}}</ref> On July 6, 2022, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced Stewart's appointment as director and president of the institution.<ref name="AcademyMuseum" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Julia |date=2022-07-06 |title=The Academy Museum Names Jacqueline Stewart as New Leader |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/arts/academy-museum-jacqueline-stewart.html |access-date=2022-07-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706195010/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/arts/academy-museum-jacqueline-stewart.html |archive-date=2022-07-06 |issn=0362-4331 |url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2016, Stewart collaborated with [[Charles Musser]] on curating the DVD set ''[[Pioneers of African-American Cinema]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/top-chicago-critics-circle-awards-go-to-moonlight-la-la-land/|title=Top Chicago Critics Circle awards go to 'Moonlight,' 'La La Land'|first=Darel|last=Jevens |date=January 8, 2017|newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|access-date=November 1, 2017|archive-date=June 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615163521/https://chicago.suntimes.com/2017/1/8/18409622/top-chicago-critics-circle-awards-go-to-moonlight-la-la-land|url-status=live}}</ref> During the summer of 2017, Stewart was invited on [[Turner Classic Movies]] to present a selection of films from the set, with future colleague [[Ben Mankiewicz]].<ref>{{cite interview |last=Coley |first=Jacqueline |url=https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/jacqueline-stewarts-five-favorite-films/ |title=Jacqueline Stewart's Five Favorite Films |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |date=October 21, 2019 |access-date=May 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024073633/https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/jacqueline-stewarts-five-favorite-films/ |archive-date=October 24, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Soon after, she was invited to the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival as a panelist to discuss the history of black images; in 2019, she was a guest speaker at a screening of ''[[The Defiant Ones]]'' (1958) and was a panelist for a discussion titled "The Complicated Legacy of ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]''".<ref>{{cite news |last=Bitran |first=Tara |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jacqueline-stewart-is-turner-classic-movies-first-african-american-host-1237214/ |title=Jacqueline Stewart Becomes First African American Host at Turner Classic Movies |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=September 9, 2019 |access-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240428041005/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jacqueline-stewart-is-turner-classic-movies-first-african-american-host-1237214/ |archive-date=April 28, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>
In September 2019, Stewart became the first African-American host for [[Turner Classic Movies ]], as the host for the ''Silent Sunday Nights'' programming block.<ref name=Daniels>{{cite news |last1=Daniels |first1=Karu F. |title=Author, professor and film scholar Jacqueline Stewart becomes first African-American host of Turner Classic Movies |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-jacqueline-stewart-first-african-american-host-turner-classic-movie-20190914-ipycxw4jgraofaxk5vhqx6fhxq-story.html |access-date=September 16, 2019 |work=[[New York Daily News|Daily News]] |date=September 13, 2019 |archive-date=October 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002074146/https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-jacqueline-stewart-first-african-american-host-turner-classic-movie-20190914-ipycxw4jgraofaxk5vhqx6fhxq-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2020, she stated her first exposure to [[silent films]] was watching them at the [[Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)|Museum of Science and Industry]] in Chicago, with her friends during weekends.<ref>{{cite interview |last=Ford |first=Anne |url=https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/january-2020/jacqueline-stewart-silent-sunday-nights/ |title=Jacqueline Stewart Watches Movies Over Your Shoulder on Airplanes |website=[[Chicago (magazine)|Chicago]] |date=January 8, 2020 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200108225116/https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/january-2020/jacqueline-stewart-silent-sunday-nights/ |archive-date=January 8, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> ▼▲====Television career====
▲In September 2019, Stewart became the first African-American host for [[Turner Classic Movies]], as the host for the ''Silent Sunday Nights'' programming block.<ref name=Daniels>{{cite news |last1=Daniels |first1=Karu F. |title=Author, professor and film scholar Jacqueline Stewart becomes first African-American host of Turner Classic Movies |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-jacqueline-stewart-first-african-american-host-turner-classic-movie-20190914-ipycxw4jgraofaxk5vhqx6fhxq-story.html |access-date=September 16, 2019 |work=[[New York Daily News|Daily News]] |date=September 13, 2019 |archive-date=October 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002074146/https://www.nydailynews.com/snyde/ny-jacqueline-stewart-first-african-american-host-turner-classic-movie-20190914-ipycxw4jgraofaxk5vhqx6fhxq-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2020, she stated her first exposure to [[silent films]] was watching them at the [[Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)|Museum of Science and Industry]] in Chicago, with her friends during weekends.<ref>{{cite interview |last=Ford |first=Anne |url=https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/january-2020/jacqueline-stewart-silent-sunday-nights/ |title=Jacqueline Stewart Watches Movies Over Your Shoulder on Airplanes |website=[[Chicago (magazine)|Chicago]] |date=January 8, 2020 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200108225116/https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/january-2020/jacqueline-stewart-silent-sunday-nights/ |archive-date=January 8, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
In June 2020, following the [[Murder of George Floyd|murder death]] of [[George Floyd]], writer–director [[John Ridley]] wrote an [[op-ed]] calling for the 1939 film ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' to be pulled from [[Max (streaming service)|HBO Max]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Pallotta |first=Frank |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/media/gone-with-the-wind-hbo-max/index.html |title='Gone with the Wind' pulled from HBO Max until it can return with 'historical context' |website=[[CNN]] |date=June 10, 2020 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610093023/https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/media/gone-with-the-wind-hbo-max/index.html |archive-date=June 10, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> The film was temporarily pulled and placed back on the service later that month, with a new commentary introduction from Stewart.<ref>{{cite web |last=Spangler |first=Todd |url=https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/gone-with-the-wind-hbo-max-disclaimer-horrors-slavery-1234648726/ |title=HBO Max Restores 'Gone With the Wind' With Disclaimer Saying Film 'Denies the Horrors of Slavery' |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=June 24, 2020 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625001447/https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/gone-with-the-wind-hbo-max-disclaimer-horrors-slavery-1234648726/ |archive-date=June 25, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> In an op-ed for [[CNN]], Stewart wrote: "Some complained that taking the film down was a form of censorship. For others, seeing ''Gone with the Wind'' featured so prominently in HBO Max's launch felt like salt rubbed into wounds that have never been permitted to heal ... But it is precisely because of the ongoing, painful patterns of racial injustice and disregard for Black lives that ''Gone with the Wind'' should stay in circulation and remain available for viewing, analysis and discussion."<ref>{{cite web |last=Stewart |first=Jacqueline |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/12/opinions/gone-with-the-wind-illuminates-white-supremacy-stewart/index.html |title=Why we can't turn away from 'Gone with the Wind' |website=CNN |date=June 12, 2020 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613024725/https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/12/opinions/gone-with-the-wind-illuminates-white-supremacy-stewart/index.html |archive-date=June 13, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2021, TCM debuted a new series titled ''Reframed Classics'', reanalyzing 18 films with problematic racial and gender stereotypes, with Stewart as one of the co-hosts.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-03-03/in-a-new-series-tcm-takes-a-look-at-problematic-classics |title=In a new series, TCM takes a look at 'problematic' classics |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=March 4, 2021 |access-date=May 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304003758/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-03-03/in-a-new-series-tcm-takes-a-look-at-problematic-classics |archive-date=March 4, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> Charles Tabesh, TCM's senior vice president of programming, told the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' the response to the ''Reframed Classics'' series was mixed among older audiences. On the other hand, Stewart stated it was well-received by Academy members, especially those who are people of color. She said: "They appreciate the channel and the ways it is recognizing issues like blackface in classic films, or the casting of white actors to play nonwhite characters, in greater depth."<ref>{{cite news |last=Battaglio |first=Stephen |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-06-22/tcm-fights-to-keep-classic-film-alive-on-tv-in-a-streaming-world |title=Can this classic movie channel survive in a streaming world? How TCM is adapting |work=Los Angeles Times |date=June 22, 2021 |access-date=June 30, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210622150141/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-06-22/tcm-fights-to-keep-classic-film-alive-on-tv-in-a-streaming-world |archive-date=June 22, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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