Monique Jones | Shadow and Act Billy Porter is taking on critics who feel he won’t be able to accurately portray writer and activist James Baldwin. While as a guest on Tamron Hall, Hall asked the Pose and Broadway actor about his opinion on people who are questioning...
https://vimeo.com/561405000 By Adrienne Westenfeld | Esquire | Published: Jun 15, 2021 In 1979, up-and-coming television producer Joseph Lovett scored the opportunity of a lifetime. Just a few months into his stint at 20/20, ABC’s upstart television news magazine,...
Erik Pedersen | Deadline Hollywood Big commercial hits and a number of awards-season regulars made the cut as the WGA announced its 2019 Writers Guild Awards nominees for outstanding achievement in screenwriting writing during 2018. Check out the full list below,...
https://youtu.be/N4m3t3G3Zqc Director: Barry Jenkins Writer(s): Barry Jenkins (screenplay), James Baldwin (novel), Tari (editor) Starring: KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Colman Domingo, Teyonah Parris, Michael Beach, Aunjanue Ellis, Ebony Obsidian, Dominique...
https://youtu.be/OSe7rkK76x4 Director: Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack Writer(s): NA Starring: Maya Angelou, Cicely Tyson, Guy Johnson, Diahann Carroll, Don Martin, Louise Meriwether, Nikki Giovanni, Louis Gossett Jr., Alice Windom, Jules Feiffer, Robert Loomis,...
https://youtu.be/rNUYdgIyaPM Director: Raoul Peck Writer(s): Raoul Peck, James Baldwin Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Robert F. Kennedy, Harry Belafonte, Paul Weiss, Dick Cavett, H. Rap Brown, Bob Dylan,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7jIOawq8y8 Director: Liz Garbus Stars: Nina Simone, Lisa Simone Kelly, Roger Nupie, Al Schackman, George Wein, Stanley Crouch, Andrew Stroud, Dick Gregory, Ilyasah Shabazz, Attallah Shabazz, Gerrit De Bruin, Eleanor Belinfanti, Gregory...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csWByunwVI8 Director: Orlando Bagwell Writer(s): Orlando Bagwell, Steve Bagwell, Steve Fayer Starring: Malcolm X, Alfre Woodard, Sharon 10X, Benjamin 2X, Mohmaed Al-Faysal, Maya Angelou, John Henrik Clarke, Ossie Davis, Alex Haley, Yuri...
https://vimeo.com/121483194 Director: Karen Thorsen Writer(s): Karen Thorsen, Douglas K. Dempsey Starring: James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Frances Foster, David Leeming, Ishmael Reed, William Styron Synopsis: Profiles the life and work of author/civil...
https://youtu.be/A-x7TP4z3fA Director: Richard O. Moore Writer(s): N/A Starring: James Baldwin, Orville Luster Synopsis: In “Take this Hammer,” author and activist James Baldwin meets with members of the local African American community in San Francisco in the spring...