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Share this article Share this article CHICAGO, March 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Executive Producer Chaz Ebert announces that "Mr. SOUL!", the award-winning documentary, has been nominated for Outstanding Documentary (Film), Outstanding Breakthrough Creative (Motion Picture) and Outstanding Writing in a Documentary (Television or Motion Picture) at the 52 nd NAACP Image Awards. The ceremony annually celebrates the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts and airs ...

Celebrate Womens History Month with the best movies directed by women from the past 20 years: The films that entertained, transported us, and broke new ground.

By CRAIG ROGERS February 25, 2021 at 3:53 PM Life is sweet at Saveur Creole in Montclair. Life is sweet at Saveur Creole in Montclair. Credits: Courtesy of Saveur Creole By CRAIG ROGERS New Jersey Date Night is a series on NJ Flavor by relationship writer Craig Rogers. February is Black History Month and as such we’re reminded of so many people who have made a difference in how we live all year through. As we celebrate the hefty list of accomplishments of those who came before us, we think...

Gina Belafonte Artivist, Gina Belafonte is the Executive Director of Sankofa.org a non-profit which educates, motivates and activates artists and allies in service of grassroots movements and equitable change. An award-winning producer, director and cultural organizer, Gina is driven by the most urgent social and political issues of our time using art as a tool to fulfill the mission of Sankofa.org.  As a visiting professor, lecturer and public speaker, Gina works with diverse artists, act...

Kim’s Korner: Black History Month An activity making paper quilt pieces honoring those who have had an impact on Black History. The month of February is a busy one and I didn’t want to forget one of the most important parts of February, Black History Month. It is important to teach our children about diversity and the important people in Black History that opened up things for the black community, so they can see positive things about the black community instead of all the negative things ...

Do the Right Thing 4K Ultra HD movie review Follow Us Question of the Day By Joseph Szadkowski - The Washington Times - Saturday, February 20, 2021 Filmmaker Spike Lee‘s Academy Award-nominated, seminal social commentary on America from 1989 returns in the ultra-high definition format with a visual presentation as potent as its message of racism in Do the Right Thing (Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Rat...

Freedomways, the African American journal of politics and culture that for nearly a quarter century chronicled the civil rights and Black freedom movements beginning in the early 1960s, started in 1961, a year that was a kind of transitional one for the civil rights movement. The sit-ins that had begun in early 1960, and the continuing demonstrations and emerging fervor, had made national headlines, but the movement hadn’t yet achieved the national stature that it would a couple of years late...

Kevin Young on Protecting and Preserving Black History February 17, 2021 Born in Harlem, James Baldwin wrote often of his beginnings here, including his reading “every single book” in the transfor­mative space now known as the Schomburg Center for Re­search in Black Culture. “I went to the 135th Street library at least three or four times a week, and I read everything here. I mean, every single book in that library,” Baldwin wrote. “In some blind and instinctive way, I knew that wha...

Screenshot: CBS All Access The Stand. I really liked parts of it, and I bounced hard off other parts. But I think the moment that sums the show up best is that, towards the end of the series, there’s a scene where a character has sex with the Devil. The Devil usually appears as Alexander Skarsgård (exactly how I would appear if I were the Devil) but while the two character are having sex, his usual glamour slips a little, and the scene flashes between a romantic scenario in a rose petal-str...

Starring Lakeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya, movie 'Judas and the Black Messiah' is now streaming on HBO Max.