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The Wait is Over, ‘Harlem’ Season 3 is Finally Here

Goodbyes often have a negative connation to them when things come to an end, but instead of being sad or mournful, fans of the hit show “Harlem” are encouraged to rejoice in the final season of Tracy Oliver’s beloved series.

Writer & Director Tayarisha Poe delivers in first feature film ‘Selah and The Spades’

TAYARISHA POE: I made an overture to “Selah and the Spades,” called “Overture,” in 2014, knowing I eventually wanted to make a feature. But I didn’t know how to write a feature script, and I didn’t know what it would be about, so I wrote short stories about the characters and their world — one every day for the month of November 2014. At the end of the month, I had all these stories. Since I knew how to write and take photos, I turned the stories into separate multimedia works. It’s not the most conventional approach to making a movie but it worked for the story because I wound up spending so much time world-building and thinking about the lives of these kids, which in the end made the feature itself so much more complex and rich. 

Tayarisha Poe’s — ‘Selah and the Spades’—debut feature is an immersive deep dive into underground societies at a prestigious boarding school —through Black and Brown eyes

Writer-director Tayarisha Poe’s “Selah and the Spades,” currently playing on
Amazon Prime—immerses us in the world of Selah (“Sell-uh” ) Summers
(Lovie Simone), the shrewd and charming senior head of the Spades and one
of five underground factions that absolutely dominate social life at a
prestigious boarding school.