NNPA NEWSWIRE — With assistance from rock stars like Mick Jagger and David Bowie, Tina Turner topped the pop music charts with her 1984 solo album,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I got here just a year after the Black Caucus started, 50 years, and the Black Caucus has gotten stronger every year with...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Debbie Allen became the first Black woman to be presented with a Governor’s award, which is given for outstanding achievement in the arts...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Boseman was no stranger to playing iconic characters, bursting onto the big screen in 2013’s 42 as baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who broke...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The special features Oprah Winfrey as she speaks separately with both acclaimed director Ava DuVernay and Rev. Al Sharpton regarding the historical context...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Tucker has been in and around Hollywood since college (UCLA). A chance meeting at a barbeque produced the opportunity to co-write a script...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Ava DuVernay’s “When They See Us” earned four wins from the African American Film Critics Association, who today, announced the winners of its...
CINCINNATI HERALD — Dayton area resident Steven Geraud Anderson II, who is one of the 400 Morehouse College students who graduated Sunday in Atlanta, said he was...
By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic By now you know what to expect from Mission: Impossible movies… Daredevil action scenes, breakneck speeds, cunning espionage,...
DERRIK J. LANG, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angela Bassett is taking on the mantle of “Six,” the codename for the leader of the...
(People) – Another American Horror Story alum has just checked in to the Hotel. Angela Bassett is the latest Horror Story regular confirmed to return for the anthology series’s fifth season....
Emily Yahr, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post)—Though Whitney Houston’s untimely death at age 48 was one of the biggest stories in the world, Lifetime’s...
MIKE CIDONI LENNOX, AP Entertainment Writer BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Colleagues and friends of Whitney Houston gathered Tuesday night to screen “Whitney,” a new telefilm...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Lifetime TV channel says it will air a movie about Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown’s relationship, with actress Angela Bassett...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic “When a mother bestows a name on her child, it reveals her hopes.” Black Nativity, a celebrated “gospel...
