By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) James Baldwin, the intellectual, civil rights activist and renowned author, left behind some biting and enlightening words about racism...
Rocking That Style! Aunni’s Fashion and Beauty Column By Andrea “Aunni” Young (AFRO/NNPA Member) Celebrity beauty expert and Bluffa Jo Cosmetics creator Maisie Dunbar once told...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Steve Harvey has a lot on his plate these days. The comedian, who is beloved by millions, has been...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) It must have been two weeks of pure hell for First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. First there was November...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) Saroo Brierley, a five-year old boy from a small town in India, got lost on a train ride, wound...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) Nearly 40 years ago, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” set the bar very high for sci-fi films that...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) For a long time it was a forbidden love. Through slavery, the reconstruction era, on into the 20th century,...
By Lauren Victoria Burke (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Some films rely on pyrotechnics and special effects to get attention. Other films are jolting just by retelling a...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) In just his second feature film, writer/director Barry Jenkins tells a compelling story about sexual repression and ambiguity through...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) Has success spoiled Kevin Hart? Forbes Magazine lists him as 2016’s highest paid comedian with an annual income of...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Wire Service Film Critic) Finally, a filmmaker unearths one of the biggest secrets in American history: slave revolts. It’s a lesson rarely...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) In the original 1960s The Magnificent Seven, seven gunfighters assembled to help a Mexican peasant village fight off villains....
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) For 41 years the Toronto International Film Festival has attracted the world’s best films and built and audience. At...
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) The struggles of an interracial marriage, families divided by race, religion and politics and the conversion of one Jewish...
[FORWARDTIMES.COM/NNPA MEMBER] Oprah Winfrey is learning a thing or two from her network’s new drama series ‘Queen Sugar.’ The veteran talk show host revealed to Entertainment...
[NYTIMES.COM] In the New Museum’s lobby on Thursday night, a circle of women, all dressed in red, swayed from side to side, clapping as they chanted...
[fvplayer src=”http://youtube.com/watch?v=RK8xHq6dfAo” splash=”https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RK8xHq6dfAo/maxresdefault.jpg”] Watch the new trailer for #HiddenFigures, based on the incredible untold true story. Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer & Janelle Monáe. In...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) “Thought he was just another smooth talking brother?” says an inquisitive Chicago mom. She’s repeating the words her daughter...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) “Every boxer is someone’s hero.” It’s a saying that’s been hard to attach to Roberto Durán. Most people assume...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) “I been poor my whole life. It’s like a disease.” And with that thought in mind, two brothers, Toby...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA News Wire Film Critic) On a hot mid-August summer weekend in Richmond, Virginia, thousands of music lovers gathered for the seventh annual...
By Dwight Brown NNPA News Wire Film Critic “Deadpool” may have raised the bar far too high for the comic-book-turned-film genre. It was fresh, innovative, irreverent,...
[NPR.COM] From Happy Days to The Wonder Years, television has long looked to the past for inspiration. Some new shows dig into 1980s and ’90s nostalgia:...
[CRANK LUCAS ON YOUTUBE.COM] [fvplayer src=”http://youtube.com/watch?v=-MLn78dfPR4″ splash=”https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-MLn78dfPR4/maxresdefault.jpg”] Crank Lucas gives a humorous take on the evolution of Hip Hop and it’s complicated relationship with American drug...
By Dwight Brown (NNPA News Wire Film Critic) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings is a Grammy-nominated R&B band from Brooklyn. Their groove is funky like James...
