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‘Thank You for Your Protection and Your Light’: Jonathan Majors Pens Touching Tribute to Michael K. Williams
Majors recently starred alongside Williams in the multiple Emmy-nominated HBO series Lovecraft Country.
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Wendell Pierce, Spike Lee, Ava DuVernay and More Pay Tribute to Beloved Actor Michael K. Williams
The Wire and Lovecraft Country star was found dead in his Brooklyn home on Monday at age 54.
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Role Call: On Your Left! Anthony Mackie Will Star in Capitan America 4 and Apparently the Fourth Season of Dear White People is a Musical
Courtney B. Vance locks down two projects, a docuseries with Angela Bassett; co-stars in 61st Street with Aunjanue Ellis; Frankie Smith joins BET+’s Sacrifice
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'The Work Is in the Valley': Courtney B. Vance and Dr. Robin Smith Join Forces on World Mental Health Day
“The tapes are in our minds. It’s my responsibility to change the tape in my head because it’s a mind game. It is a battle. The battleground is the mind…And that’s why there are suicides, because we just want to stop the tape.” — Courtney B. Vance, Actor text In a world where Black people…
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The Safe Negro Guide to Lovecraft Country: 'Sundown'
If you clicked this link, you probably watched “Sundown,” the first episode of Misha Green’s Lovecraft Country on HBO on Sunday (if not, go watch). Now, ahead of next Sunday’s episode, you’re interested in becoming more than a casual viewer as you recognize that the series is an incredibly subversive piece of historical fiction with…
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Lovecraft Country and the Horror Story of America
Welcome to Lovecraft Country…or um, you know…welcome to America for Black folks. Based on the Matt Ruff novel of the same name, Lovecraft Country follows Atticus “Tic” Freeman (Jonathan Majors) who takes a road trip from Chicago across 1950s Jim Crow America to find his missing father Montrose (Michael Kenneth Williams). His childhood friend Letitia,…
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Oprah, Angela Bassett, Courtney B. Vance and Phylicia Rashad Among Cast in Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me HBO Adaptation
We have a paramount cast lineup for a paramount author’s paramount work! On Thursday afternoon, HBO announced the initial cast for its adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. And wow, what a lineup. The cast includes Oprah Winfrey, Angela Bassett, Alicia Garza, Joe Morton, Phylicia Rashad, Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, Courtney B.…
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If You Didn’t Listen to The Preacher’s Wife Soundtrack, Did Christmas Even Happen?
Christmas has always been my favorite holiday. My family always cooked just as much food as they did on Thanksgiving, but I got presents as a bonus. Win-win. In my excitement, I was always first in line to help put up the Christmas tree and decorations for the year. Of course, once I was old…
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The World's 10 Greatest Enunciating-Ass Negroes, Ranked
10. Pusha T No one has ever made crack speak so crisp. You listen to him say “Arm & Hammer and a Mason jar, that’s my dinner date” and you want to diagram a sentence. 9. Tika Sumpter Perhaps the world’s most underrated enunciator. She’s the Paul Millsap of enunciation. 8. Phylicia Rashad I heard…
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Go See Office Christmas Party and Remember Everything You Like About the Holidays
Nostalgia is a funny thing in the movies. When it’s done right, movies whisk us back to some bygone romanticized era where we could all laugh, party and relive simpler times—think Hot Tub Time Machine’s depiction of the ’80s. When movie nostalgia goes wrong, it’s a trip back to someone else’s fantasy past, when white…