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Zoe Saldaña Is The First Actor To Have Four Films Cross The $2 Billion Box Office Threshold
Zoe Saldaña has established herself as the most bankable star in Hollywood. With the astronomical success of her most recent film, Avatar: The Way of...
Angela Bassett, Rihanna Among Nominees For 95th Academy Awards, ‘The Woman King’ Snubbed
Today, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the list of nominees for the 95th Academy Awards ceremony. Hosted by Riz Ahmed and...
In ‘Girl,’ Both A Mother And Daughter Are Trying To Come Of Age
In its first few scenes, Girl appeared to be yet another typical story of a poor West African migrant mother and her child, depicting how...
Confirmed: The Original Cast Of ‘Girls Trip’ Is Returning For Upcoming Sequel Set In Ghana
Almost five years after the success of the first film, it has been confirmed that the star-studded cast of Girls Trip will be reuniting for...
Exhibition Exploring 50 Years Of Hip-Hop (And The Women Who Made It) To Open In NYC This Week
A new exhibition tracing hip-hop’s origins—starting in the Bronx in 1973, as a social movement by and for the local community of African, Latino, and...
In ‘Drift,’ Migrant Stories Are Complicated And White Saviorism Is Not the Answer
Stories of African migrants arriving in Europe’s shores are not unusual in the latter continent’s news headlines. They are also accompanied by singular narratives of...
Kenya Barris Addresses Criticism He’s ‘Obsessed’ With Telling Interracial Stories
Black-ish creator Kenya Barris is making his directorial debut with the upcoming comedy You People set for release on Netflix Friday, January 27. The film...
In ‘Invisible Beauty,’ Fashion Icon Bethann Hardison Tells It Like It Is
Bethann Hardison doesn’t like the word beauty. She told me as much the day after the premiere of her first film, Invisible Beauty, at the...
‘Magazine Dreams’ Is A Conflicting Portrayal Of A Terrified And Terrifying Lonely Black Man
Magazine Dreams could just as easily have been called “Little Traumas Everywhere” or something similar because of the amount of pain its characters render in...
‘Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’ Is an Attempt To Place An Unknowable Subject
In the opening scenes of Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson’s documentary on the revolutionary poet Nikki Giovanni, the subject of the doc reminds us in...