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60+ Black Biopics Still In Limbo

60+ Black Biopics Still In Limbo

from Shadow and Act | Tambay Obenson Updating this list as I do once a year (I forgot to do it last year; so there was a lot to research and catch up on) to keep you all up-to-date on where each project stands going into the new year, including 18 new additions… There...

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He ‘Roots’ Out Grandad’s Past

He ‘Roots’ Out Grandad’s Past

By Neil Graves | New York Post It’s taken three years, dozens of phone calls and hundreds — maybe a thousand — pieces of documents, but Grant Harper Reid can now say he knows all there is to know about his granddad. Reid’s grandfather was showman Leonard Harper, a...

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Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)

Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)

https://youtu.be/8lI4NV_PxFg Director: Rob Reiner Writer(s): Lewis Colick Starring: Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Virginia Madsen, Whoopi Goldberg, Susanna Thompson, Craig T. Nelson, Lucas Black, Joseph Tello, Alexa PenaVega, William H. Macy, Ben Bennett, Darrell Evers,...

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A Man Called Adam (1966)

A Man Called Adam (1966)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxa4sQBcJl0 Director: Leo Penn Writer(s): Lester Pine, Tina Pine Starring: Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Armstrong, Ossie Davis, Cicely Tyson, Frank Sinatra Jr., Mel Tormé, Peter Lawford, Johnny Brown, George Rhodes, Michael Silva, Kai...

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Paris Blues (1961)

Paris Blues (1961)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59LQvDqS1to Director: Martin Ritt Writer(s): Jack Sher, Irene Kamp, Walter Bernstein, Lulla Rosenfeld; Harold Flender (novel) Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong, Diahann Carroll, Barbara Laage, André...

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Cabin in the Sky (1943)

Cabin in the Sky (1943)

https://youtu.be/-F7MTp6Jdo8 Director: Vincente Minnelli Writer(s): Joseph Schrank, Lynn Root Starring: Ethel Waters, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram, Kenneth Spencer, John William Sublett, Oscar Polk, Mantan Moreland, Willie Best,...

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