By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Eighty-two women climbed the steps of the Palais des Festivals at the Cannes Film Festival in an unprecedented red carpet protest to press for improved gender equality in the film industry. The number of stars, filmmakers and film industry professionals ascending the steps represented the […]
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Ryan Coogler Reflects on Tsunami That is ‘Black Panther’
By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — At the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, filmmaker Ryan Coogler reflected on the historic sensation of “Black Panther” and the changes he hopes it might effect on the movie business. Noting that Hollywood theories can’t be challenged “if you don’t have anything that disproves it,” […]
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Crow, Common Part of New Grammys Inclusion Task Force
By The Associated Press Sheryl Crow and Common are among the artists and executives on the Recording Academy’s new task force on inclusion and diversity. The academy announced the team’s 16 members — 13 of whom are women — in a statement May 9. Common and Sheryl Crow are among the artists and executives on […]
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TV Expands Media Choices for Black Content
By Nadine Matthews, Special to the AFRO Back in 2012, Deshuna Spencer became excited to see some of the Black independent films that she read about regularly on websites dedicated to the subject, “I didn’t have the money,” she tells the AFRO, “to go to New York City, or Los Angeles or Paris to see those […]
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‘Black Mother’ Explores the Underbelly of Jamaica
By Jannah Johnson, Special to the AFRO Starting May 2nd the Maryland Film Festival will be taking place in Baltimore’s North Station, showcasing over 40 films and 10 short programs. One film that stands out is “Black Mother,” a documentary style film about Jamaica and its underbelly directed by Khalik Allah. Allah was raised in Long […]
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Wife: Cosby Convicted By ‘Mob Justice, Not Real Justice’
By The Associated Press Bill Cosby’s wife called May 3 for a criminal investigation into the suburban Philadelphia prosecutor behind his sexual assault conviction, saying the case that could put the 80-year-old comedian in prison for the rest of his life was “mob justice, not real justice” and a “tragedy.” Camille Cosby made her first […]
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Actress Paula Newsome Talks About Her Role in HBO Hit Series Barry
By Nadine Matthews, Special to the AFRO The youngest of three girls, actress Paula Newsome has always described her upbringing as “Like the Huxtables.” She admits that it has gotten much harder to characterize her family and childhood years in that way. “Now, that’s kind of a hard thing to bring up. What a bummer,” she […]
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Black Comic Who Called Cosby A Rapist Credited after His Conviction
By ANDREW DALTON, AP Entertainment Writer Standup comic Hannibal Buress, whose 2014 remark about sexual-assault accusations against Bill Cosby went viral, is getting another serious surge of attention. The path to Cosby’s conviction April 26 on charges he drugged and molested a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home arguably started 3 ½ years earlier in a […]
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MSNBC Host Joy Reid Entangled in Hacker, Homophobic Slurs Scandal
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. editor, mgreen@afro.com Time traveling hacks may have made perfect sense for retroactive mayhem in the movie “Back to the Future,” yet few people believed MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid’s statement that an “external party accessed and manipulated material” from her now obsolete blog, The Reid Report. The homophobic posts were uncovered by Wayback […]
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First Saudi Cinema Opens with Popcorn and ‘Black Panther’
By The Associated Press The lights dimmed and the crowd of men and women erupted into applause and hoots April 18 evening as Hollywood’s blockbuster “Black Panther” premiered in Saudi Arabia’s first movie theater. Though it was a private, invitation-only screening, for many Saudis it marked one of the clearest moments of change to sweep […]
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Laz Alonso Shows a Whole Different Side in New Film
By Nadine Matthews, Special to the AFRO It was a reunion of old friends for Laz Alonso and his co-stars in his new film “Traffik,” which opens April 20. “I’ve known Roselyn Sanchez for over 10 years,” Alonso tells the AFRO. “I know Paula from “Jumping The Broom.” That was 10 years ago so Paula Patton […]
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CNN’s Don Lemon to Contributor: Be Honest
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — CNN’s Don Lemon apparently has his limits. The evening host shut down a former Donald Trump aide — and paid CNN contributor — on Thursday, telling him not to come on his show and lie to the American people. Lemon and Jason Miller were talking about special […]
