Julie Walker

12/5/16

16 Artists Who Made Sure Black Lives Mattered at Art Basel Miami Beach

The beauty of art is that it starts with one person's dreams and ideas, which are then realized in a painting,…

11/3/16

A Star in Her Own Right: Pauletta Washington on Being a Strong Woman Behind a Powerful Man

She is the wife of one of the biggest stars on the planet, Denzel Washington, and the mother of rising star and…

1/28/16

In a New Documentary, Spike Lee Celebrates the Genius of Michael Jackson and Leaves Everything Else Out

Like a lot of people, Spike Lee first fell in love with Michael Jackson as a little boy watching the Jackson 5 on…

1/26/16

Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation Sells for Record Price at Sundance

When the lights went up after a Sundance screening of Nate Parker’s film The Birth of a Nation, the bidding war…

1/25/16

For Don Cheadle, Miles Davis Film Is Personal

Don Cheadle was nominated for an Oscar for Hotel Rwanda in 2004. He lost to Jamie Foxx for his performance in Ray.…

1/24/16

Black Films at Sundance That Could Help Cure #OscarsSoWhite

12/6/15

17 Brilliant Black Artists Featured at Art Basel in Miami

Black art matters here at Art Basel Miami Beach, Dec. 3-6, 2015, the premier art show in the United States. During…

9/1/15

Former Black Panther Kathleen Cleaver on Assata Shakur and #BlackLivesMatter

One of the central figures in the history of the Black Panther Party is Kathleen Cleaver, the first communications…

6/29/15

Sisters Making Waves With Their Swimsuit Designs

Have you ever had trouble finding that perfectly sexy one-piece or tantalizingly comfy bikini to show off your…

6/11/15

American Black Film Festival: Our Stories, Told Our Way

The American Black Film Festival is once again taking place in New York City, from Thursday through Sunday. The…

4/13/15

9 Black Movies at NYC’s Tribeca Film Festival You’ll Want to See

The 14th annual Tribeca Film Festival is coming to New York City April 15-26, and it features a handful of films…

4/5/15

Handing Out Seed Money so That Black Tech Startups Can Grow

In this high-tech world we live in—where tech startups are creating new apps and gadgets daily that can do…

3/28/15

Abuse and Mental Illness Add a Double Dose of Drama to Alfre Woodard’s New Film

Mental illness, still very much a taboo subject in the African-American community, is tackled head-on in the new…

3/17/15

Jesse Jackson: Access to Technology Is the Goal of Our Next Big Movement

Fresh off the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., the Rev.…

3/17/15

#BlackLivesMatter Founders: Please Stop Co-opting Our Hashtag

The founders of #BlackLivesMatter are grateful that their message has been picked up by so many people as a rallying…

3/15/15

SXSW: What It’s Like to Be Black in Silicon Valley

How to solve the diversity issue in tech was one of the topics covered by the South by Southwest panel “How to Not…

3/14/15

Ava DuVernay at SXSW: ‘If Your Dream Only Includes You, It’s Too Small’

From Selma, Ala., to South by Southwest, filmmaker Ava DuVernay took her message of living in the moment and being…

3/13/15

SXSW: Taking a Moment and Turning It Into a Movement

When the hashtag stops trending, what can be done to continue the movement? That was the topic tackled at the panel “…

3/11/15

At SXSW Interactive, Making Diversity in Tech the Next Civil Rights Fight

It isn’t exactly news that the tech world has a diversity problem. At this year’s South by Southwest Interactive—the…

2/21/15

Can Hollywood Fix Its Diversity Problem?

At the 74th annual Academy Awards in 2002, Sidney Poitier—who became the first African American to win a best actor…

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