The Christmas season is upon us, which means it’s the perfect time to listen to holiday music and watch Christmas movies.
For this list, I picked Christmas movies featuring black actors in lead roles.
I included some popular, well-known films, like The Preacher’s Wife and Friday After Next, and a few that might be new to you, like the Marry Me For Christmas film series and The Mistle-Tones.
There are a ton of Christmas movies out there (Hallmark brings a new crop of them every year), but many don’t feature black-leads (or even leads of varying racial identities or sexualities).