DuBose on reviving a legacy 110 years in the making. In 1916, brothers Noble and George P. Johnson built something America ...
The media image of the American farmer rarely reflects the existence of Black farmers, who take center stage in the documentary “Seeds,” which is on the schedule of this year’s Black Harvest Film ...
The 24th annual North Carolina Black Film Festival wrapped up Sunday after a three-day showcase of films submitted by ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Producers hired playwright and actor Bill Gunn to make a cheap Blacula knockoff. Instead, he delivered one of the most ambitious ...
From dramatic fare to modern day horrors, Black History Month provides a good occasion to either reacquaint yourself with some of these treasures of Black cinema or discover them for the first time.
It was 1970 and Black-Jewish relations weren’t at their best. Two years earlier, the Ocean-Brownsville teachers’ strike in Brooklyn had pitted Black and Jewish New Yorkers against one another.
When Black Film Fest NOLA returns on Saturday, Dec. 6, expect an eclectic array of entertainment that fits with this year's theme, "Poetry in Motion" — reflecting the way film, music and literature ...
For as long as Black people have been seen on TV and in films, Hollywood and the larger media landscape have recycled damaging stereotypes and “tropes” that reduce us from fully realized human beings ...
Akinola Davies Jr.’s “My Father’s Shadow” is a 2025 family drama that blurs the boundaries of joy and grief, politics and personal relationships, dreams and reality. Set in Lagos, Nigeria, against the ...
Milwaukee Film's “Afrofuturism: Fates Beyond Fiction” series reflects on and celebrates Black icons in fiction. There are many ways to observe and celebrate Black History Month, and if you have some ...
It’s hard to believe it’s been 40 years since “The Color Purple” hit theaters on Dec. 18, 1985. The film, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover and Oprah Winfrey, was a screen adaptation of Alice ...