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National Civil Rights Museum: Spike Lee To Receive Freedom Award By Sponsor Jordan Brand
By National Civil Rights Museum Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons Memphis, TN, Sept. 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today the National Civil Rights Museum announced ...
Black Filmmaker: Why I’m Embracing Independent Filmmaking
By Edwin Freeman Photos: Edwin Freeman As an African American actor, writer and director, I believe independent filmmaking is the future for Black creators ...
NYC Mayoral Race: Hollywood Celebrities Favor Wiley, McGuire
Photo: YouTube Hollywood celebrities Chris Evans and Gabrielle Union love Maya Wiley, counsel to Bill de Blasio, but stars like Spike Lee and Steve ...
Woodie King’s New Federal Theatre Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Glynn Turman and Woodie King. Photo: Fern Gillespie Spanning Black Arts Movement to Black Lives Matter with Virtual Star-Studded Gala on January 17. For ...
Film at Lincoln Center Announces Sam Pollard Tribute Series
Photo: YouTube Veteran editor, producer, and director Sam Pollard is among cinema’s most dedicated chroniclers of the Black experience in America, moving freely across ...
Gramercy Film Looks at Mental Health within Black Community
[Gramercy] This topical short received its world premiere at the 2020 Locarno Film Festival, where Variety named it one of the festival’s not-to-miss shorts. ...
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay Awarded 27th Annual Dorothy & Lillian Gish Prize
[Ava DuVernay\Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize] Jamie Bennett: “Ava DuVernay is an extraordinary filmmaker whose body of work as a writer, producer, director, distributor, ...
ACTORCOMEDIAN DOUG E. DOUG RELEASES HIP-HOP INSPIRED NOVEL “THE FALL OF 1987”
[Actor Doug E. Doug’s Book “The Fall of 1987”] Doug E. Doug: “This book is a step toward dealing with the complexity of life ...
APOLLO THEATER FILMS PRESENTS “BAKOSA: AFROBEATS OF CUBA” IN FEBRUARY
[Apollo Theater Films\”Bakosó: Afrobeats of Cuba”] The Apollo Theater announced will screen the award-winning documentary Bakosó: Afrobeats of Cuba on Thursday, February 20th at ...
Oscars: Nomination of Spike Lee for Best Director Category was Long Overdue
Spike Lee. Photo: Shelly Provost–Flickr This is how film director Spike Lee once put it: “People of color have a constant frustration of ...
