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For nearly 125 years, Black cinema has served as an avenue for creative expression, cultural affirmation, and a reimagining of what freedom really means in America. Yet, the separate-and-unequal attention Hollywood pays to Black cinema has left most moviegoers largely unaware of its rich tradition. New Canaan Library welcomes Professor Artel Great, who will present an in-depth discussion of Black cinema as part of the Library’s Movements in Cinema series. The live webinar and will be held on ...

By 1987, the Fat Boys had already experienced an impressive measure of success and notoriety, helping to develop and shape hip-hop’s early years on wax. Their first two albums, 1984’s self-titled debut and 1985’s The Fat Boys Are Back, were produced by rap legend Kurtis Blow and were certified Gold on the back of hits like “Can You Feel It?,” “Jail House Rap,” and “The Fat Boys Are Back.” Often sharing the stage with pioneering contemporaries like Run-D.M.C. and Whodini, the ...

Cooley High and shows like  A Different World, how he started acting. Turman gives credit to his mother, who was in the “bohemian” crowd and introduced him around 12 years old to her friend and playwright,  Lorraine Hansberry. But when his mother first introduced the idea of auditioning for Hansberry’s play, a young Turman agreed on one condition. “I’m not sure. When is it going to be?” Turman said to his mother at the time. “Because if it is Saturday, I can’t do it. I have ...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA After 60 years in showbiz, Glynn Turman has seen it all. And he’s not done yet [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MOVIE-TURMAN:LA] LOS ANGELES — If you’re wondering why Glynn Turman keeps popping up in high-profile projects, the veteran actor can break it down for you. “My manager calls it ‘the Glynnaissance,” said Turman in a Zoom interview, flashing a smile that lights up the computer screen like a Christmas tree. More than six decades after his debut in the ori...

If you’re wondering why Glynn Turman keeps popping up in high-profile projects, the veteran actor can break it down for you. “My manager calls it ‘the Glynnaissance,’” said Turman in a Zoom interview, flashing a smile that lights up the computer screen like a Christmas tree. More than six decades after his debut in the original Broadway production of “A Raisin in the Sun,” and more than 40 years since his breakthrough in the nostalgic coming-of-age movie “Cooley High,” Turm...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA After 60 years in showbiz, Glynn Turman has seen it all. And he’s not done yet [Los Angeles Times] If you’re wondering why Glynn Turman keeps popping up in high-profile projects, the veteran actor can break it down for you. “My manager calls it ‘the Glynnaissance,” said Turman in a Zoom interview, flashing a smile that lights up the computer screen like a Christmas tree. More than six decades after his debut in the original Broadway production of “A Rai...

When Chadwick Boseman arrived in Pittsburgh in 2019 to film the August Wilson adaptation ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’, his castmates didn’t know that he’d been privately battling cancer for three years. But co-star Colman Domingo remembers what Boseman said as the ‘Black Panther’ star prepared to pour his all into the incendiary role that would mark his final screen performance: “He said, ‘I can’t wait to dance with you, Colman.’” Boseman, who died in August at the age of ...

Prior to his death, Chadwick Boseman had been working on several movie projects, including the forthcoming Ma Raineys Black Bottom alongside Viola Davis. Based upon the play of the same name, Bosemans final film is headed to Netflix on December 18. The official trailer has already arrived. Heres everything you need to know about Ma Raineys Black Bottom. Ma Raineys Black Bottom explores racial tensions in 1920s Chicago. Ma Raineys Black Bottom is based upon the 1982 play of the same name by Au...

Print When Chadwick Boseman arrived in Pittsburgh in 2019 to film the August Wilson adaptation “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” his castmates didn’t know that he’d been privately battling cancer for three years. But costar Colman Domingo remembers what Boseman said as the “Black Panther” star prepared to pour his all into the incendiary role that would mark his final screen performance: “He said, ‘I can’t wait to dance with you, Colman.’” Boseman, who died in August at the ag...

Four decades ago, Glynn Turman watched August Wilsons Ma Raineys Black Bottom on Broadway at the Cort Theatre. "I was thinking, man, I sure would love to do Levee," he tells Esquire down the phone in early December. He never did get to play Levee, the mercurial trumpeter at the heart of the play: a story of a jazz band recording with the legendary (and eponymous) mother of the blues. The late Chadwick Boseman beat him to it for a film adaptation thats coming to Netflix this week. Instead, Tu...