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Lee Daniels Sells Exorcism Film to Netflix for $65 Million
In a hotly contested bidding war, Netflix pays $65 million for exorcism movie directed by Lee Daniels, starring Andra Day, Octavia Spencer, Caleb McLaughlin.
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Zendaya, John David Washington, Niecy Nash, Matthew A. Cherry Among 819 New Members Invited to The Academy
It’s time to welcome a new class into the most elite membership in the film industry. On Tuesday, The Academy announced it is welcoming 819 new members. Per a press release sent to The Root, the Academy Class of 2020 is “is 45 percent women, 36 percent underrepresented ethnic/racial communities, and 49 percent international from…
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Rob Morgan Is a Leading Man
“You from Chicago?” Rob Morgan’s rich voice rumbled with a comedic lilt, acknowledging the area code on my cell phone. After I confirmed, he followed up with a question that further cemented my love for him: “You step?” From that very moment, I settled into what was to become one of the most endearing interviews…
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10 Very Black (Non-Spoiler) Reasons to Go See The Photograph
The Photograph, a new black love story starring Issa “Lookin’ Like a Bag of Money” Rae and Lakeith “Can I Measure Your Tree?” Stanfield, comes out in theaters nationwide on Friday, Feb. 14 (also known either as Valentine’s Day or “National I Don’t Celebrate That Commercialized Obligation of Love Day”). I had a chance to…
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A Quest for Justice: Just Mercy Cast on the Racial Inequality in the Criminal Justice System
“Slavery doesn’t end in 1865, it evolves. It’s that century of lynching and terrorism. And then it becomes racial apartheid and Jim Crow segregation. And now it has become over-incarceration and excessive punishment.” —Bryan A. Stevenson text Bryan A. Stevenson is a gift. As an attorney and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative—an organization dedicated to…
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco Remembers the Heart of the City
Reading the script for The Last Black Man in San Francisco was like experiencing an earthquake, actor Johnathan Majors says. Strange at first, even surreal. “The whole ground is shifting. If you look at it…it actually seems impossible,” Majors tells me over the phone. “At the end of the script. It was like, things have…