Jordan Peele is the first black writer-director with a $100M movie debut
This weekend, Jordan Peele made history by becoming the first African-American writer-director to hit a $100 million movie debut. His horror movie, Get Out, has held steady for three weekends now, even...
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Young stars of Oscar-winning “Moonlight” to receive keys to the city of Miami...
By Kimberly Wilson The boys of “Moonlight” will be getting their moment. Both 13-year-old Alex Hibbert and 12-year-old Jaden Piner are slated to receive keys to the city of Miami at this year’s Jazz in...
View ArticleFilm Review: I Called Him Morgan
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) Bee Bop. Jazz. The 1950s and 1960s were a hotbed for cool music, and the hip musicians, who played those genres on records and in smoky, dimly lit...
View ArticleFILMS ANNOUNCED FOR THE 2017 SAN DIEGO BLACK FILM FESTIVAL
SAN DIEGO—Films are announced for the 2017 San Diego Black Film Festival with more than 100 selected from over 13 countries. Screenings this year are expanded to include Fashion Valley AMC, UltraStar...
View ArticleDrama ‘Shots Fired’ takes layered look at police shootings
by Lynn Elber, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The title of “Shots Fired” makes it clear the new drama series is treading on contentious turf. Yes, a police shooting of an unarmed youth is at the...
View ArticleJay Z to make Trayvon Martin film and documentary series
~The Grio According to Variety, Jay Z and Weinstein Company are partnering to make a film and documentary series about Trayvon Martin. This comes after a heated rights battle for the rights to two...
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Why Holly Robinson Peete Believes Autistic Lives Matter Too
by Chandra Thomas Whitfield ~ NBC Black “Run’s House” meets “Black-ish” – that’s how Holly Robinson Peete says she pitched her family reality show now in its second season on Oprah’s OWN Network. And...
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White artist’s Emmett Till painting under fire at NY museum
By Alina Heineke NEW YORK (AP) — An abstract painting of lynching victim Emmett Till on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York was the subject of a weeklong protest by a black artist...
View Article‘Moonlight’ director developing ‘Underground Railroad’ series
by Jake Coyle, AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins will follow up his Oscar-winning film with a drama series for Amazon based on Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground...
View ArticleGospel on Demand Radio Captures the 2017 Stellar Awards
If it is hot and happening now in the world of gospel music, Gospel on Demand is there. And this weekend, the 32nd Annual Stellar Awards is where Evangel and Walter Ko of Gospel on Demand Radio KPRZ...
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San Diego Native Returns Home to Present: Love and War
By Edward Henderson San Diego native and performance artist Keomi Tarver, 29, believes a special movement is happening in the hearts and minds of women of color. This evolution is in response to the...
View ArticleJordan Peele is the first black writer-director with a $100M movie debut
This weekend, Jordan Peele made history by becoming the first African-American writer-director to hit a $100 million movie debut. His horror movie, Get Out, has held steady for three weekends now, even...
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Old Globe’s “Red Velvet”” Multilayered Magic
By Barbara Smith In the annals of African American theatre, names like Paul Robeson, Ossie Davis, James Earl Jones and Sidney Poitier leap to mind. But each of these iconic figures would undoubtedly be...
View ArticleJay Z pulls all his music from Apple and Spotify, appears on new Frank Ocean...
The Grio Jay-Z has pulled his solo music from Apple and Spotify. According to Spotify, the removal was “at the request of the artist,” though that’s hardly surprising. This is not the first time that...
View ArticleFilm Review: Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) “My music is the spiritual expression of what I am…I want to be the force that is truly for good.” It was a while before the legendary jazz musician and...
View ArticleComedian Charlie Murphy dead at 57
The Grio On Wednesday morning, Charlie Murphy, comedian and older brother to Eddie Murphy, died at the age of 57 after a long battle with leukemia. According to TMZ, his death caught his family by...
View Article‘Hidden Figures’ Author Setting Next Book in Baltimore
NEW YORK (AP) — The author of “Hidden Figures” is setting her next book around two prominent African-American households in mid-20th century Baltimore. Viking told The Associated Press on Monday that...
View Article“SKELETON CREW” FILLS DETROIT WITH HEART
By Barbara Smith In describing how she creates characters in her play “Skeleton Crew,” now playing at the Old Globe Theatre, playwright Dominique Morisseau posits, “I chose to excavate these people...
View ArticleSAN DIEGO BLACK FILM FESTIVAL SHOWCASES ART, COMMITMENT
By Barbara Smith When you love your craft, you’re going to do anything and everything you need to do to achieve your dream. This is how actor Taurean J. Royal described the journey of “Then There Was...
View ArticleMeagan Good and Omari Hardwick star in ‘Love on Election Night’
Omari Hardwick and Meagan Good are set to star together in a new indie romance called A Boy. A Girl. A Dream: Love On Election Night. The film tells the story of a Los Angeles club promoter who, on the...
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