Professional basketball player Tina Charles is no stranger to the spotlight as a two-time Olympic gold medal winner in basketball and member of the WNBA’s Washington Mystics, but it’s film that has afforded the 2010 #1 draft pick the opportunity to tell poignant and powerful stories about everyday all-stars and …
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The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, will begin to host its Nine Commemoration Committee, a forum this Thursday to remember the victims killed during a random act of hate. In June 2015, during a Bible study group at the church, Dylan Storm Roof, a white supremacist, opened …
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Haimy Assefa has been working in the digital film space for nearly six years and says that she has just recently begun to truly own the title of filmmaker. The art of storytelling is not something new to Assefa. She is a former professional journalist who has always used her …
Read More »Regé-Jean Page, left; Chris Rock; John Boyega; Jonathan Majors.Photo: Jeff Spicer (Getty Images), Amy Sussman (Getty Images), Yuichi Yamazaki (Getty Images), Gregg DeGuire (Getty Images) This is a Josh O’Connor appreciation post. If you asked, “Josh who?” he was the perfectly cast Prince Charles in the most recent season of …
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Cai Thomas says that it’s important not to put limits on what’s possible in one’s career. She reflects that if anyone would’ve told her just a year ago that she would have a film premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival and airing on BET Networks, she would’ve asked what in …
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The Columbia professor Carl Hart believes that we can use drugs safely, and that doing so is our American right. Pascal Meier / Unsplash Listen and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts The Columbia professor Carl Hart spent his career studying the effects of drugs, and …
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If you ask filmmaker Arielle Knight if she thinks the power of film is real, don’t be surprised if she pulls Exhibit A out of her bag of tips. Knight says that thanks to the film Black Panther, we now have a collective image of reference. “When we talk about …
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Late rapper Tupac Shakur would have celebrated his 50th birthday on Wednesday (June 16) and Kaavia James, daughter of Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade, received a special gift that commemorates him. On Saturday (June 12) the L.A.’s Finest actress shared a video on Kaavia’s Instagram page showing the 2-year-old reacting …
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A Black 7-year-old boy from South Carolina who was an honor student, was mauled to death by a pack of dogs. Shamar Jackson was killed on Sunday after he and his brother were walking through their neighborhood looking for their pet chihuahua, Marion, according to The State. Related stories: THIS BRAND …
Read More »Photo: Nanthaphiphat watto (Shutterstock) On Monday, a cashier working at a Decatur, Ga., supermarket was shot dead by a customer who she had asked to wear his face mask properly while he was in the store. On Tuesday, DeKalb County police identified that cashier as 41-year-old Laquitta Willis. ABC News …
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