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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Scott Feinberg | The Hollywood Reporter Ashley Boone Jr., the first black president of a major Hollywood studio, helped make George Lucas' quirky space opera a hit in the 1970's — yet chances are you've never heard of him: "He was way ahead of his time."...
by Monique Jones | Shadow and Act In celebration of Black History Month, Shadow And Act has put together a list of five documentaries that definitely need to be on your watchlist to view before the month is over! 1. Uppity (2020) Executive producers Nic Maye and Van...
By Nathaniel G. Nesmith | American Theatre With Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway...
By Dino-Ray Ramos | Deadline After nine days of films, episodics, events, premieres and snow, Sundance is winding down and its ending with huge news as the Park City fest has announced Tabitha Jackson as the new Director of the Sundance Film Festival. Jackson, who...