Notable Deaths of 2019
This year, we said goodbye to amazing men and women, who left lasting legacies with their work, talents and time…
This year, we said goodbye to amazing men and women, who left lasting legacies with their work, talents and time…
A resident of Princeton, N.J., Williams published nearly 10,000 articles and reviews before he passed away.
Olivia Colman Delivers Oscar-Winning Performance in Revisionist Costume Drama
Green Book Is the Surprise Best Picture Winner Olivia Colman Upsets Glenn Close for Best Actress Green Book upset Roma to take home the Academy Award for Best Picture on an historic night featuring a record number of wins for black-themed films. Green Book also won in the Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali) and Original Screenplay categories. Meanwhile, Spike Lee landed the Oscar for Adapted Screenplay for BlacKkKlansman, and Regina King garnered the Supporting Actress award for inspired performance in If Beale Street Could Talk. And Peter Ramsey won for co-directing the Best Animated Feature, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. Black Panther prevailed in a trio
She reflects fondly on a culturally rich childhood growing up in the Bay Area until the age of 12, when her mother took a job in French-speaking Montreal.
Kam’s Annual Assessment of the Best in Black Cinema
Classy and Trashy Sisters Square Off in Fish-Out-of-Water Comedy
For movies opening September 14, 2018.
WIDE RELEASES Christopher Robin (PG for action) Ewan McGregor handles the title role in this musical fantasy revolving around the now-grown pal of Winnie the Pooh’s (Jim Cummings) return to Hundred Acre Wood to recapture the sense of wonder which captured his imagination as a child. With Hayley Atwell, Brad Garrett, Toby Jones and Sophie Okonedo. The Darkest Minds (PG-13 for violence, disturbing images and mature themes) Adaptation of Alexandra Bracken’s futuristic best seller set in the U.S. in the wake of a pandemic which has killed 98% of children under 20 and where the survivors have been rounded up
Although the African American community appreciated her efforts, the same couldn’t be said for the LAPD which labeled Patrisse a terrorist and fabricated a flimsy excuse to conduct a SWAT team raid of her apartment. All of the above is revisited in riveting fashion in When They Call You a Terrorist, a fascinating combination autobiography and blow-by-blow account of the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Here, Trevante talks about his latest outing as Sergeant Ben Milo in 12 Strong, a docudrama about the top secret mission of a Special Forces unit deployed to Afghanistan a few days after 9/11.
The Ten Best Black Books of 2017
That’s because they exist in parallel universes. You see, Destined is one of those “What if?” affairs set in a couple of alternate realities.
“It has always been a struggle for the relatively few African-Americans in corporate America who do exist, and it is made all the more difficult because we tend to operate in isolation. We are nearly always alone, with no one to fall back on… as we deal daily with an unending stream of slights real and imagined.
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