Low-budget, urban-set crime dramas were a pretty prevalent film genre throughout much of the 1990s, particularly during the first half…
Read More →
The following table of contents features all articles published during Black Writers Week 2024 (June 17th through June 23rd). —The Editors…
Read More →
The 5th Annual LightReel Film Festival concluded on June 8, 2024, after completing its strongest slate of films, panels, and…
Read More →
From Hattie McDaniel to Shonda Rhimes to Debra Martin Chase, Black women have shifted the narrative and broken down barriers…
Read More →
When “The Underground Railroad” premiered on Amazon Prime Video during the pandemic, some were worried. At a moment when Black…
Read More →
Contains language around sexual abuse Bridgett M. Davis’ 1996 film “Naked Acts,” recently rediscovered by Maya S. Cade, presented by…
Read More →
Alex Thompson and Kelly O’Sullivan have made one of the most moving films in years in “Ghostlight,” opening this weekend…
Read More →
Last month, the Experience Champaign-Urbana Foundation hosted their annual Toast to Tourism event in downtown Champaign, Illinois. First held in 2013,…
Read More →
From the moment New York ran its now-infamous 1985 cover story on the Brat Pack, the article’s subjects hated it.…
Read More →
I have seen so many hagiographic clip reels masquerading as documentaries that I kind of just presumed that Hulu’s “Brats”…
Read More →