National Geographic Channel's LA 92 Shows Role of Latasha Harlins Case in Historic Event
Los Angeles Uprising 1992, Courtesy Tribeca Film Festival Latasha Harlins was a fifteen year-old honor student who would often cry when...
Lynn Nottage Wins Second Pulitzer for Play Sweat: A Timely Meditation on the Working Class
Brooklyn born Lynn Nottage didn’t originally set out to be a playwright when she started college. Though she had always written short...
Schomburg Center Acquires Archives of Literary Great James Baldwin
James Baldwin The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at The New York Public Library, today announced acquisition of the...
Black-ish's Tracee Ellis Ross Juror for Tribeca Film Fest First Snapchat Competition
Tracee Ellis Ross One of our favorite TV Moms, Black-ish’s Tracee Ellis Ross has been announced as one of the jurors for the upcoming...
Netflix' Chewing Gum's Michaela Coel Gets Serious About Colorism
Michaela Coel Many members of the African diaspora, keenly aware of the pitfalls of the past, have developed a finely tuned ability to...
Actress Vanessa Bell Calloway Talks Marriage, Daughters, Dieting, Dance
As part of her 60th birthday celebration, still stunning and in fabulous shape actress Vanessa Bell Calloway (Saints and Sinners,...
Looking for a Good Book To Read? New York City Has You Covered.
The New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment launched its One Book New York initiative in February of this year to...
Black Media Should Take Up Gauntlet on Missing Black Girls
A recent article by Shaun King, writer for the NY Daily News and a post on Instagram by entertainment mogul Russell Simmons unleashed a...
Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale Starring Samira Wiley to Debut as Part of Tribeca Film Festival L
The highly anticipated Hulu series, The Handmaid's Tale is set to debut on April 20th as part of the 16th Annual Tribeca Film Festival....
Actor Wesley Snipes Gets Film Series at BAM for 25th Anniversary of White Men Can't Jump
Modern black film, where blacks were featured on-screen and/or off, began coming into its own commercially speaking in the nineties....