The public media partnership led by Maryland Public Television will present its first-ever HBCU Week NOW Student Film Festival in the winter of 2026. Produced in partnership with Black Public Media and the platform, the film festival is dedicated to showcasing the
By Curtis Bunn After the rallying cry âOscars So Whiteâ emerged in 2015, calling out the general exclusion of Black filmmakers and movies from the annual awards ceremony, Agnes Moss stewed on it for a few years. The dismissal of Black-led films had
By Arturo Conde Biopics often put the spotlight on larger-than-life icons. But for Kingsley Ben-Adir, the British actor who plays Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley in a new movie out Wednesday, telling a sweeping story about a legend was something that he â
Written By Dustin J. Seibert Letâs start out by acknowledging that we all love Andra Day. That said, we can acknowledge that her rendition of âLift Every Voice and Singâ at the beginning of Super Bowl LVIII left manyâŠhoping for better. The Grammy-winning artist
Written By Shanelle Genai Respected hip-hop journalist Dee Barnes is speaking out following the 66th annual Grammy Awards that saw rapper Jay-Z take home the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award. For context, the inaugural award kicked off on 2022 with its first recipient being Dre. Dre
Itâs been a big start to 2024 for Colman Domingo and Ayo Edebiri who â after earning their first Oscar nomination and Emmy win, respectively â lead the pack of film and TV nominees for the 55th NAACP Image Awards. Domingo is nominated for three awards: outstanding
By Christopher A. Daniel For more than four decades, Luther Vandross has been recognized for his silky tenor and doo-wop-inspired runs with tender lyrics about romantic love and joy. He sold more than 40 million records worldwide, 13 of his albums went platinum, and he
By Marlene Lenthang AMC Theatres has apologized to a civil rights leader who was escorted out of a screening of âThe Color Purpleâ in North Carolina by police after he tried to bring in his own chair he uses for an arthritic disability.
âThe Color Purple,â a vibrant adaptation of the book-turned-beloved-movie-turned-hit-Broadway-musical, dominated at the box office on Christmas Day. The film has outperformed expectations with $18 million from 3,152 North American theaters. Itâs the largest Christmas Day opening for a film since 2009, and
By Minyvonne Burke Oprah Winfrey’s slimmed-down frame can be credited to weight loss medication and a holistic approach, the media mogul told People magazine in an interview published Wednesday. Winfrey said she uses the medication “as a tool” to manage her weight as
Fresh on the heels of her new film âRenaissance: A Film by BeyoncĂ©â arriving in theaters, BeyoncĂ© has dropped a new song, âMy House,â to coincide with its release. Viewers at screenings noted that the song appeared in the credits, and she
