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Why Eddie Murphy Says Blacks Don’t Work Together In Hollywood
by | Jun 26, 2020 | 
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Hurry Up and Wait: Reflections on the Release of THE LEAST OF THESE
by | Jun 26, 2020 | Articles | 0 Comments
Nathan Scoggins is an award-winning writer and director who lives in L.A. He’s written projects for Lionsgate, Jenkins Entertainment, Sodium Entertainment, and Five...
Cicely Tyson Receives Peabody Award for Lifetime Achievement
by | Jun 15, 2020 | Articles, 
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from Alt-Africa.com The 95 year old veteran actor is known for advancing positive representation of Black women on the screen. This week the Peabody Awards selected Tyson, for her work on stage, screen, and television, as the 2020 recipient of a Career Achievement...
Blaxploitation Movies & Black Power in the 1970s (2020)
by | Jun 11, 2020 | Articles, 
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Schomburg Center acquires Harry Belafonte’s historic archive
by | May 15, 2020 | Articles | 0 Comments
NBC News | By Wilson Wong Items associated with the prolific life of cultural icon Harry Belafonte will soon be available to researchers at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. With a repository of over 11 million items...
Cannes Jury President Spike Lee Responds to Festival Postponement
by | Mar 28, 2020 | Articles, 
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By Ramin Setoodeh | Variety Over the last 73 years, the Cannes Film Festival has often been billed as the world’s biggest and most glamorous celebration of the movies. But this year, it was poised to make history. Director and activist Spike Lee had been selected as...
Filmmaker Stanley Nelson on Nurturing the Next Generation of Documentary Stars
by | Mar 28, 2020 | Articles | 0 Comments
12 Black Characters Who Taught Us How To Survive Anything
by | Mar 21, 2020 | Articles | 0 Comments
by Monique Jones | Shadow and Act During this time of quarantine, self-isolation and social distancing, folks have been trying to tap into their inner survivalist to make sense of the world and get through the coronavirus outbreak. If you're looking for some role...
Why ‘Parasite’s’ Historic Win Gives Hope to Effie T. Brown
by | Mar 2, 2020 | Articles | 0 Comments
By Jazz Tangcay | Variety Effie T. Brown joined film financing fund Gamechanger as CEO earlier this year because she wanted to make a difference in the industry. After “Parasite’s” historic win at the 92nd Academy Awards, she finally feels hopeful. “It was that...
Stella Meghie on the Unbearable Weight of Representation
by | Feb 28, 2020 | Articles | 0 Comments
By Stella Meghie | Variety “The Photograph” is about to enter its third week in theaters. My head’s still spinning from the reviews and Twitter response — but let’s pretend I don’t read those. Folks have been kind to the film and I’m grateful. There’s unbearable...
Turn Black History Month Into Black History Year
by | Feb 26, 2020 | Articles | 0 Comments
By Robin Thede | Variety From “The Queen Latifah Show,” “The Nightly Show,” “The Rundown with Robin Thede” and “A Black Lady Sketch Show,” my career has been dedicated in large part to the representation, advancement and celebration of black people year-round. And I...
African American History Is American History
by | Feb 25, 2020 | Articles | 0 Comments
by Kasi Lemmons | Variety My influences were literary initially. I was a big reader of books so my influences were Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and southern novelists. In terms of film, I liked Bergman a lot and Hitchcock, but there were a lot of different...