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Stephan James discusses versatility in Black male roles and new series ‘Surface’

‘I think that’s a part of the decision-making for me, that I’m continuing to check boxes in my career …’

By Andscape Staff Kelley L. Carter

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‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ is a heart-stopping, world-shifting romance

The first movie adaptation of James Baldwin’s fiction establishes Barry Jenkins as one of America’s finest architects of on-screen intimacy

By Soraya Nadia McDonald

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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

By Kelley L. Carter