Film

Cicely Tyson was humble about her magnificent career

She knew how much work remained for Black women in Hollywood

‘MLK/FBI’ looks at J. Edgar Hoover’s crusade to undermine Martin Luther King Jr.

Government agents listened in as the saint of civil rights cheated on his wife

George C. Wolfe’s appropriation blues

The director of the film adaptation of ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ has been tripping cultural land mines for decades

It’s been a year of big change for Blackness in animation

Pixar is releasing ‘Soul,’ Matthew Cherry won an Oscar for ‘Hair Love,’ and Cleveland is finally voiced by a Black actor

In ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ the New Negro and the Old collide

A new production on Netflix shimmers with career-defining work from Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman

Director Garrett Bradley shows the bleak heart of the prison system in ‘Time’

The first Black woman to win the U.S. documentary prize at Sundance is a master of her craft

Radha Blank relearns how to live in color in ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’

The playwright’s feature film debut on Netflix is a sweet and sharp coming-of-middle-age story

‘Antebellum’ and ‘Lovecraft Country’ are gorgeous empty suits

Poor storytelling leaves viewers unable to digest what’s going on

‘Another Act’: Laz Alonso on identifying with his character Mother’s Milk in ‘The Boys’

Also, he talks about attending Howard, the significance of HBCUs and his journey in Hollywood