Written and directed by Tayarisha Poe, Selah and the Spades has been on my anticipated list for a while. In fact,…

In addition to settling into a dark theater to watch a bunch of independent films, Sundance Film Festival is a time…

I distinctly remember the day I realized my femininity.

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If there’s one thing to take from Ava DuVernay’s career journey, it’s that she has proven she is here to create a…

Perhaps no other city in America is as synonymous with gentrification as San Francisco.

It’s that time again; indie filmmakers and film lovers alike are descending upon the frosty mecca known as Park City…

“Everything you thought you knew about Martin Luther King Jr. is wrong,” says Trey Ellis, producer of the upcoming…

In 2005, NPR’s This American Life broadcast the story of Bishop Carlton Pearson’s struggles with his faith that…

Tyrel may immediately draw comparisons to Get Out for its initial premise of an African American finding himself in…

Before he received a rousing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival for his bizarrely brilliant social-critique film…

It’s maddening that a book written in 1999 still carries so much relevance in 2018. Nearly two decades ago, Walter…

Officiating funerals is one of the hardest things I have to do in ministry. I struggle with the right words to say,…

The trailer for Netflix’s Mudbound is here, and it’s more riveting and soul-stirring than all the critics claim. The…

Director and writer Shaka King is busy in the TV-and-film industry at the moment, but that wasn’t always the case.

Jessica Williams is anything but average. And her mother made her realize that a long time ago after she stopped…

There have been a few pieces on VSB recently that some of our readers felt were kinda hard on and/or insensitive to…