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At 83, the filmmaker behind “Cooley High” and “Car Wash” may be the longest-working Black director in history. His own story is a Hollywood epic.

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Passenger 57 Legacy Sequel with Wesley Snipes Rumored to Be on the Way Passenger 57 Legacy Sequel with Wesley Snipes Rumored to Be on the Way A list of upcoming projects from the California Film Commission suggests that we could be getting a sequel to the 1992 Wesley Snipes actioner Passenger 57. Buckle up, because it's rampant speculation time. Following the recent release of several projects on the agenda of the California Film Commission, one title in particular instantly stood out to action movie fans and could suggest that we are getting a sequel to the 1992 Wesley Snipes thriller, Pass...

Douglas Turner Ward: A Lens on ‘Questions That the Country Wasn’t Asking’ Samuel L. Jackson, David Alan Grier, Phylicia Rashad and others remember the Negro Ensemble Company founder. Douglas Turner Ward waiting to go onstage after the opening night performance of “A Soldier’s Play” in January 2020. Kenny Leon, who led the production, called Ward’s presence and smile up there that night “the greatest experience for me as an American director.”Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times By the time he founded the Negro Ensemble Company in 1967 with Robert Hooks and Gera...

Douglas Turner Ward He won a Tony Award while also directing and starring in 'The River Niger' in the '70s. Douglas Turner Ward, a Tony-winning playwright, director and actor who co-founded New York's trailblazing Negro Ensemble Company, has died. He was 90. Ward, inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1996, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan, his wife, Diana Ward, told Energized by the success of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and with help from a Ford Foundation grant, Ward, actor Robert Hooks and theater manager Gerald Krone officially launched the Negro Ensemble Company...