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Sam Levinson uses Zendaya and John David Washington to love and yell at himself for 100 minutes in new movie, 'Malcolm & Marie.'

There's nothing like a classic love story to put you in your feels this love season.

This week, we discuss "Malcolm & Marie," "Snowfall," "Upload" and "Outside the Wire." "Malcolm & Marie." Photo courtesy of Netflix By Jonathan Limehouse and Bethany Lane February 11, 2021 Welcome to the latest installment of “What’s good on TV,” in which two of QCity Metro’s young staff members and television fans suggest and review shows and movies that feature Black actors, directors, writers and showrunners. Read their recaps, opinions and what to expect next from the shows and films...

“My editor broke the news to me that publishers’ profits, and therefore advances, were down, so most novelists were going to need two jobs,” Holman recalled. “I’d earned $9,000 on my writing the year before …. I needed one job that paid enough to live on.” Then she heard from a novelist friend who’d moved to L.A. and was making “big bucks” in an HBO writers room. “I decided to teach myself to write for TV.” Lacking a trust fund, savings or income, Holman sold the Victo...

Monroe County Legislator Ernest Flagler-Mitchell. The recently reactivated Rochester branch of the NAACP has replaced beleaguered Monroe County Legislator Ernest Flagler-Mitchell as its new president, according to the organization. Flagler-Mitchell was installed as the chapter president in a ceremony on Jan. 16, about two hours before news broke that he had been accused of sexual harassment by sending a sexually explicit photo, and other suggestive text messages, to a 19-year-old ...

By Cherranda Smith Black History Month calls for a history lesson on the Divine Nine! Black Greek letter organizations that make up the National Pan-Hellenic Council are woven into the fabric of HBCUs across the country. They were founded by students and faculty members who were just one to two generations removed from slavery, during a tumultuous period of American history, underscoring the tenacity and fortitude of their founders.   These organizations, also known as the Divine Nine, have...

Aisha Harris These are a few things that can be, and often are, true: Black artists are lavished with praise for their societal value while the artistry of their technique and craftwork are overlooked. White critics fall back on comparing Black artists to one another even if the work, style or visions among them are entirely disparate. Artists borrow from the lives of those they know intimately and risk making a mess of their relationships. Zendaya and John David Washington are talented perform...

in black and white was sorted out early on, right? Sam Levinson: It was part of the plan from the beginning, but I think when we started to go back and look at whatever references we had—from The Servant, things like that—we were struck by the fact that in black-and-white films almost every actor is white. And by the time people of color started getting leads in films, black and white had fallen out of fashion. Granted, Spike Lee has made films in black and white, and Charles Burnett...

What makes a Black movie Black? Keith Murphy © Moviestore/Shutterstock A new special edition of EW celebrates a century of Black Film — but first we had to decide what that meant. What defines a Black movie? For the earliest filmmakers of color, the answer was pretty simple: Movies featuring Black actors telling stories intended for Black audiences. Once known by all as "race films," they came first from pioneers such as William D. Foster, who, beginning in 1912, produced s...

Created: February 01, 2021 03:23 PM ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — Lawmakers and organizations are reacting to the use of pepper spray on a 9-year-old by Rochester Police officers on Friday. The incident happened after an unrelated family trouble call that involved a possible stolen car. The childs mother told police that she was making suicidal statements." Police handcuffed the girl and put her in the car, but when the girl refused to put her feet inside the car, an officer pepper-s...