Glad you mentioned the "Historical era" needing an all Black cast. Hollywood has done quite a brilliant job of portraying everyone from the Middle East as resembling Scandinavians! It's true that Egyptians, Ethiopians, Jews and Arabians didn't look West African back then, but they didn't look Swedish either!

When you look and see how many video awards the "Dangerous" album DIDN'T win you realise they never allowed MJ to win (sweep the board) after "Thriller" again!