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InStyle, Regina King revealed that she wanted her first directorial feature to be, “a love story with a historical backdrop, like a Titanic,” but then she read the script for and had a change of plans. And though it may not be a love story in a traditional sense, the film—adapted from a play by Kemp Powers—has a certain sweeping romance to it, imbued with the charisma of its characters, four icons of Black American history. In fact, King considers her film a “bromance,” the kind rarely seen between Black men on film, as it imagines the conversations between Malcolm X, Cassius Cl...

Regina King's 'One Night in Miami' tells the story of four famous Black men—Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke—meeting up in a hotel room.

As far as high-powered meetings in the 1960s go, one featuring Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X, boxer Cassius Clay (soon to be Muhammad Ali), football playe

Mick LaSalle January 12, 2021Updated: January 14, 2021, 12:08 pm Leslie Odom Jr. as Sam Cooke, Eli Goree as Cassius Clay, Kingsley Ben-Adir as Malcolm X and Aldis Hodge as Jim Brown in “One Night in Miami.” Photo: Amazon Studios “One Night in Miami” does for American social history what “The Crown” does for the royal family: It takes a real-life historical occurrence, of which we know very little, and fills in the details with fiction. Directed by award-winning actress Regina King, in her feature directorial debut, and adapted by Kemp Powers from his play of the same ...

Credit: Kobra, Courtesy of Wynwood Walls Each year, Miami's Art Basel adds more artistic experiences that reach across the city's neighborhoods and include Black artists. Events happening in Overtown, Brownsville, and Little Haiti draw attention to artists and entrepreneurs that largely get ignored by mainstream art buyers and appreciators. This year, while under pandemic guidelines, I spent three days experiencing Art of Black, an immersive experience that shines a light on what makes Black artists such a pivotal pa...