NNPA NEWSWIRE-Simpson's life story, a blend of unparalleled athletic achievement and enduring controversy, began in San Francisco, California, on July 9, 1947. His rise to prominence...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — First-time doc director Angela Patton, CEO of Girls for Change, teamed with video music director Natalie Rae (Leon Bridges: Bad Bad News) and they documented...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Beyoncé’s family reportedly purchased the residence on the 2400 block of Rosedale in 1982, and the megastar herself resided there until the age...
By Jeff Barbosa, California State Library Every public school student and teacher, as well as every Californian with a library card, can now access over 5,000...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I also created this podcast and platform simply because there are other ways of being a successful filmmaker besides writing a 3 million...
HOWARD UNIVERSITY NEWS SERVICE — Twenty years after the attack, after leaving the department and busying himself with new hobbies, after his oldest child, a son,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Black artists, filmmakers and films were a key part of the mix at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival. Big budget movies, small indie...
HUDSON VALLEY PRESS — The Newark Museum Black Film Festival (NMBFF), the longest-running black film festival in the United States, is celebrating its 45th anniversary with a...
TIM TALLEY, Associated Press EL RENO, Okla. (AP) — Federal inmates at an Oklahoma prison said Wednesday they are hoping a documentary featuring President Barack Obama’s...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic It was a sign of the times for Black life in the ‘60s. Police brutality. Poor housing. Few job opportunities....
David Bauder, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — One of the challenges for makers of the MTV documentary “White People” was getting folks to talk...
JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press CANNES, France (AP) — A dark side of the movie world has played out onscreen at Cannes in “An Open Secret,” a...
Neil Genzlinger, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—Here’s a phrase you probably never expected to read: Highbrow PBS and trashy Investigation Discovery have complementary...
Nicole Franklin, NBC NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (NBC News)—Unyielding in its exploration of Black Panther pride, confrontations and in-fighting, “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the...
