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...
Tiffany Smith challenges Ride Along 2 star Ice Cube to a game of This Or That.
Actor/Director/Playwright TED LANGE discusses his key movie and TV roles from the 1970s in this exclusive clip. He talks about his first screen appearance in TRICK BABY (1972), landing roles in WATTSTAX (1974), BLACK BELT JONES (1974), FRIDAY FOSTER (1975) and THAT'S...
Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Keaton have shared the screen several times, in comedies like “The Other Guys” or dramas such as Quentin Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown.” Jackson is reunited with Tarantino for “The Hateful Eight,” in which he plays a bounty hunter in...
Benicio Del Toro landed an Academy Award for 2000’s “Traffic,” in which he played a conflicted police officer. His new film, “Sicario,” puts him back in the world of drug trafficking, but as a very different character — a mysterious, dangerous man bent on revenge....
Q&A with Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kurt Russell, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen and Bruce Dern of THE HATEFUL EIGHT. Moderated by Anne Thompson. In director Quentin Tarantino’s THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or eight or twelve years after the...
Q&A with Mya Taylor of TANGERINE. Moderated by Jim Halterman, TVFanatic. It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee (newcomer Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend (James Ransone, STARLET, Generation Kill) hasn't been...
Q&A with Will Smith of CONCUSSION. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety. Will Smith stars in Concussion, a thriller based on the true story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a...