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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TONI! A CELEBRATION OF BLACK WOMEN at BAM Rose Cinemas (through Feb. 25). The theater pays tribute to Toni Morrison, who died in August, to celebrate what would have been her 89th birthday on Feb. 18. The film component of the series, which also includes a live program of performance, poetry and dance on Friday night, highlights “Beloved” (on Sunday), the 1998 screen version of Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and a program of short films inspired by her writing (also on Sunday).

718-636-4100, bam.org

IT’S ALL IN ME: BLACK HEROINES at the Museum of Modern Art (Feb. 20-March 5). The museum presents more than a century of films that have foregrounded African-American women, often defying the discriminatory attitudes of the times. For instance, MoMA credits “Zou Zou” (on Monday), a 1930s French production starring Josephine Baker, as the first major feature to give a leading role to a black woman. Other actor-activists who star in the movies screening for this series include Fredi Washington in Allan Dwan’s “One Mile From Heaven” (on Monday and March 1), in which Washington plays a seamstress whose light-skinned daughter raises the curiosity of a reporter (Claire Trevor); and Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis in “Gone Are the Days!” (on Tuesday and March 1), a satire set in the segregated South that Davis adapted from his play “Purlie Victorious.”

212-708-9400, moma.org