...Sundance/Kickstarter Panel on Strategies for Reaching & Engaging Black Audiences from Shadow & Act | Tambay Obenson Taped earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, Kickstarter hosted a panel that included speakers I’m sure many of you are familiar...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2UxWltbejM 'Every Industry Is So White,' Not Just Hollywood Lamarco McClendon | Variety.com Kerry Washington and Aziz Ansari sat down for the fourth season of Variety’s and PBS’ Actors on Actors series and the two actors struggled to...
Shadow & Act | Sergio Mims Perhaps… just perhaps. No need to tell you that the distribution game has radically changed in just a few short years. I recall it wasn’t that long ago when you would ask an independent filmmaker what their plans were for their film, and...
Career Conversations with Danielle Brooks currently starring in The Color Purple. Moderated by BroadwayWorld.com's Richard Ridge of "Backstage with Richard Ridge!" Danielle Brooks can currently be seen onstage in the moving revival of The Color Purple, starring...
by Anita Busch and Amanda N'Duka | Deadline Hollywood David Oyelowo, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nonso Anozie, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. These are but a few of the actors of Nigerian descent who are working steadily in Hollywood — actors who have, for the most...
Actor Stephan James tells you everything you need to know about the incredible true story of American track star Jesse Owens.
Career Conversations with Uzo Aduba. Moderated by Stuart Webber, President, The Oxford Union. Uzoamaka "Uzo" Aduba is an American actress and singer. She is known for her role as Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren on the Netflix television series Orange Is the New Black...
https://youtu.be/e7t4pTNZshA By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act In 1925, Hattie McDaniel, became one of the first African American women on the radio. In 1934, she landed her screen acting break in "Judge Priest." In 1940, she became the first African American to...
Dave McNary | Variety Hollywood’s failure to present more diverse casts in movies and television is potentially costing the industry billions of dollars, according to a new report issued by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. The report,...
What R-rated movie did Ice Cube sneak into as a kid? Who inspired him to act? Ice Cube reveals all to Tiffany Smith in My First Time.
Nearly 500 ‘race films’ were produced in the US between 1915 and 1952 but lost due to a combination of neglect and poor preservation, yet a new project shines spotlight on the early 20th-century films of Oscar Micheaux and others By Ashley Clark | The Guardian...
Brennan Williams | Huffington Post Black Voices Despite landing a role alongside the likes of Denzel Washington in "The Great Debaters" or his phenomenal performance in "The Secret Life of Bees," Nate Parker says the availability of quality acting roles for people of...