On Monday night, I went to check out the documentary dedicated to the creation of the classic Robert Townsend movie The Five Heartbeats. Full disclosure: The Five Heartbeats is my second-favorite movie of all time. Coming to America currently occupies that No. 1 slot, but it’s really more like 1 and 1a.

Uncle Denzel has been married to his wife Pauletta for 35 years. Hot damn, they barely do it like that anymore, so how do he and Pauletta do it?

I recently had the pleasure of attending a screening in Los Angeles for The Equalizer 2. The film—directed by Antoine Fuqua—opens Friday, July 20, and it marks the first time both Fuqua and Denzel Washington have ever done a sequel to one of their own films.

On Tuesday morning, the 2018 Tony Award nominations were announced, and along with some familiar faces in the world of black actors and actresses, there were a couple of new ones. With Broadway long known as the Great White Way, it’s always a great day when some of our best are honored, especially when it comes to…

199,783. Uncle Tom

When you get the opportunity to chat with Denzel Washington, you take it. The legendary actor is starring in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, a Broadway revival directed by another legend, George C. Wolfe. And because of this Broadway blessing, Denzel is doing press rounds.

We’re constantly celebrating black love on The Root. And we just so happened to be lucky enough to sit down separately with #BlackLoveGoals couple Denzel and Pauletta Washington as each of them promoted their latest work.

Denzel Washington is a living icon—a man so ensconced in our collective cultural consciousness that even his voice, his walk and his facial expressions are considered independent sentient beings. He was at the Golden Globes last night as his friend Oprah Winfrey received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime…

The man from New York City’s Brooklyn borough is having a good year.

Well, it’s clear that HBO is trying to dig its True Detective anthology out of the grave, because last season was a flaming-hot Cheetos turkey of a train wreck, Colin Farrell be damned.

I walked into Roman J. Israel, Esq. with an open mind. I knew that director Dan Gilroy’s previous film Nightcrawler was dark and gritty. I also knew that Denzel Washington, before his most recent appearance in Fences, had taken a leap into the world of dark and gritty with his award-winning performance in Training Day…

One South Side Chicago great-grandmother, who is a die-hard Denzel Washington fan, got the surprise of her life over the weekend when the actor pulled up in a car outside her own house—as if that sort of thing happens every day.

I’m not quite sure if Glory is a great movie. I know that I enjoy watching it. I know that it featured one of the greatest movie scores of all time. (So great that the then-11-year-old me actually went out and bought the soundtrack on a cassette tape. Which probably explains why I didn’t have a girlfriend.) I know…

It's been over a week since Viola Davis won her first Academy Award for her portrayal of "Rose" in Denzel Washington's screen adaptation of August Wilson's iconic and devastating Fences; bringing her one step closer to coveted EGOT status. Which means it's been over a week since the biggest travesty of awards season…

If there was anyone from Sunday night’s Oscars who had the time of their lives, it was Gary from Chicago and his fiancee, Vickie. The lucky couple were part of a tour-bus group that got to mix and mingle with celebrities in the midst of the award show.

Although Denzel Washington was robbed of an Oscar on Sunday, he made a dream come true for a couple straight off a Hollywood tour bus.