Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023

The 1963 March on Washington drew an estimated 250,000 people from across the country — the largest march at that point in American history — and was the place where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech.

It likely wouldn't have happened without the...

Thursday, Sep. 14, 2023

Rustin, the upcoming Netflix film produced by President Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground, will receive the Icon & Creator Tribute for Social Justice at the 33rd annual Gotham Awards Ceremony, taking place live and in person on Monday, November 27, at Cipriani Wall Street in...

Wednesday, Sep. 13, 2023

Bayard Rustin, the civil rights activist and primary architect of the 1963 March on Washington, who often worked tirelessly out of the limelight, takes center stage in the new Netflix drama "Rustin."

The film, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, stars...

Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020

Like many of those involved in the making of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," it's not easy for Viola Davis to summarize what playwright August Wilson has meant to her except to answer, "Everything." 

Davis' first stage role was in Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone." She made her Broadway...

Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020

Chadwick Boseman surges onto the screen as fast-talking trumpeter Levee in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" like a man on an electrified tightrope -- balancing precariously between hope and cynicism, humor and sadness, joy and pain, and love and hate.

Unlike with some of Boseman's other famous...

Thursday, Apr. 20, 2017

Oprah Winfrey doesn't scare easy and she wasn't frightened here.

"But I was unsure and uncertain of myself going into this role," she says. "I did not want to do it. I never truly expected to do it. I had other people in mind to do it."

Instead, it's Winfrey who erupts in the new...

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