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by Jozen Cummings onJanuary 23, 2012
George Lucas played the race card in an effective marketing campaign, but was it necessary?
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by Erin E. Evans onJanuary 17, 2012
The crime drama featured Tupac's acting debut; find out what the rest of the cast has been up to since.
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by Nsenga Burton onDecember 30, 2011
The African-American Film Critics Association's Gil Robertson IV aims to herald high-quality black cinema.
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June 4, 2011
It's been 20 years since Spike Lee's classic ignited controversy with its themes of black-on-white dating. Halle Berry, Samuel L. Jackson and Wesley Snipes are all alums. Find out what the cast has been up to.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onMay 23, 2011
According to a new study, they're pretty much all in movies with African-American directors.
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by Nsenga Burton onMay 3, 2011
In an exclusive with The Root on location in New York City, Paula Patton, Laz Alonso and director Salim Akil share how they bonded with other cast and crew members of the new rom-com.
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April 11, 2011
There is nothing we like more than a good film festival. The 18th annual New York African Film Festival is happening in New York City right now.
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by Teresa Wiltz onFebruary 25, 2011
Yes, a decade-long winning streak for black folks at the Oscars came to an end this year. But this doesn't signal a trend or anything nefarious -- it just means that this was no banner year for black film.
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by Nick Charles onNovember 22, 2010
The director of Faster, starring Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson and Billy Bob Thornton, talks about Cooley High, blaxploitation movies, Tyler Perry and making the African-American experience universal.
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October 29, 2010
For Colored Girls, Tyler Perry's adaptation of Ntozake Shange's famous play, has been met with resistance from fans of the choreopoem. But it's not the first celebrated written work-turned-movie that critics feel should have been left alone.
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