In 2006 Fox 4 News film critic Shawn pitched an idea to the station’s VP of creative services. It was an idea to help the station with its community outreach during Black History Month. The pitch was to produce a series of on-air segments highlighting the best Black movies ever made. Edwards mention that there were at least 100 Black film classics to chose from. The VP challenged Edwards that there weren’t 100 great Black films. After weeks of intensive research and hundreds of hours re-watching movies Edwards came back with a list of 100 great Black films and the idea to produce a documentary on the history of Black film. Admittedly the idea was a straight rip-off of AFI’s (American Film Institute) “100 Years…100 Movies” list except with a lot more films about the Black experience included. The VP, a young Black male, green-lit the idea with full support from the stations news director and Edwards proceeded to produce the first of four documentaries chronicling the history of Black film. Each documentary was screened for free for the public at the The Gem Theater in Kansas City, Missouri during Black History Month beginning in 2007.  All four documentaries were produced on a shoe-string budget and edited by station photographer and editor Matthew Hensley with financial support from Phillips West a local public relations firm. The rest is history, Black history…