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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.
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
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.
‘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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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