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Present-day adaptation of ‘Native Son’ opens Sundance 2019
Largest indie film festival in U.S. has another record year of black films, black casts and black leads
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How LeBron James threw a big assist to Golden Globes winner Octavia Spencer
Former Division I basketball player Mahershala Ali wins big for controversial ‘Green Book’
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How a guy who played with Cole Beasley and Marquise Goodwin ends up a movie star
‘Moonlight’ star Trevante Rhodes set for Netflix’s horror movie ‘Bird Box’ with Sandra Bullock
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Historic Grammy nod, huge holiday film — Janelle Monae is Hollywood’s newest MVP
‘It’s time for us to have as much creative freedom as those who are privileged.’
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New film star KiKi Layne of ‘Beale Street’? Yes, we love her
In this film, the innocence of black love in some ways counters the criminalization of blackness
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Oscar-winning director of ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ was a prep running back who went to FSU — as a film student
Barry Jenkins loves his Liberty City, Florida, high school
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In the new ‘Robin Hood,’ Oscar winner Jamie Foxx is Moor than just Little John
‘I understand the significance of a bus full of school kids — that are African-American — yelling my name’
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Common teams up with Tony Parker, Drew Brees for new boxing documentary
‘I’m from Chicago,’ says the Oscar winner, ‘it’s no different than Washington, D.C., Oakland, Detroit, Flint … It’s connected.’
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A Taye Diggs appreciation — on the 20th anniversary of ‘How Stella Got Her Groove Back’
Diggs is now starring as a prep football coach in The CW’s new ‘All-American’