Jessie Maple, Pathbreaking Filmmaker, Is Dead at 86
Jessie Maple, a bacteriologist who took up filmmaking in the 1970s, became the first Black woman to join the camera operators union in New York and went on to direct trailblazing independent films about drug addiction, love, sisterhood and friendship, died May 30 at her home in Atlanta. She was 86. Her family announced the…