African American Entertainment

Moonlight, Barry Jenkins, Naomia Harris, Mahershala Ali, Janelle Monae, Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, Trevante Rhodes, African American Films, Black Films, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
Moonlight Director Barry Jenkins on What Scared Him Most About Making Such a Personal Film – Slate In advance of the Oscars this Sunday, where Moonlight is up for eight awards including Best Picture, we're reprinting this conversation from October 2016 between the film's writer-director Barry Jenkins and Slate's Aisha Harris.
Janelle Monáe, Taraji P Henson, Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
Why Hidden Figures should win the best picture Oscar – The Guardian Theodore Melfi’s feelgood biopic about three African-American women working for Nasa in the 1960s breaks boundaries with a knowing kick of its kitten heel
Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong’o, Akusua Bosia, Zainab Jah, Saycon Sengbloh, Pascale Armand, Eclipsed, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
See the Story Behind Danai Gurira’s ‘Eclipsed’ Play In This New Documentary – Okay Africa You can now see the story behind the Broadway play that made history as the first to feature an all-black, all-women cast and creative team in this new documentary.
Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks, Amazon, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
‘Boondocks’ Creator Aaron McGruder Creating Drama Series for Amazon – Atlanta Black Star Aaron McGruder, creator of cult-favorite “The Boondocks,” is teaming with producer-director Will Packer to create a new series for Amazon Studios
Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us, People v OJ, African American Entertainment, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
This Is Us Is TV’s Biggest New Hit. Sterling K. Brown Makes It Human. – Slate Last year, Slate’s Aisha Harris hailed Sterling K. Brown’s performance as Christopher Darden on The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story for its powerful embodiment of the “double consciousness” involved in being a black man prosecuting one of black America’s greatest heroes.
Brooklyn Academy of Music, African American Cinema, Black Movies, KOUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
8 Films In BAM’s Black Women Festival That We’re Excited to See—And Why They Matter – Okay Africa The only thing I love more than black women starring in movies, is movies made by black women.
African American Entertainment, Black Television, Black Hollywood, Black Cinema, Atlanta, Insecure, Chewing Gum, Luke Cage, Blackish, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
Claiming the Future of Black TV – The Atlantic After a banner year for African Americans on television in 2016, can the industry normalize this success?
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Re-performing the Histories of African American Public Figures In Written in Smoke and Fire, Edgar Arceneaux reappropriates blackface and examines the legacy of a quasi-sacral figure in national history, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Donald Glover, Childish Gambino, Atlanta, African American Actor, African American Entertainer, KOLUMN Magazine, KOLUMN
You Have to Take Donald Glover Seriously Now With his new album, ‘Awaken, My Love!,’ the ‘Atlanta’ creator makes his case as the most exciting young polymath working in pop culture.