The Academy Awards have no problem honoring historical dramas, period pieces or scripts “based on a true story,” but has such admiration for these themes ever extended itself to films starring Black actors talking about “Black issues,” helmed by Black auteurs? When the 2015 nominations were announced, Selma was disappointingly absent from categories outside of Best Picture and Best […]

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Hollywood heavyweight Benedict Cumberbatch quickly learned how to get schooled by the Internet when he accidentally referred to Black actors, as not “Black” or “or color” but, “colored.” The current Oscar nominee, who was formerly seen in 2013’s 12 Years A Slave, said the archaic term during his conversation with PBS (and Black) host, the prominent […]

It’s been 51 years since the groundbreaking marches in Selma and Montgomery, Alabama took place. The people from that era who are alive and willing to speak on the civil rights movement are literally walking encyclopedias on what it’s like to fight for freedom against the circumstance of adversity. One of those pillars of knowledge and […]

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We couldn’t be more excited about the release of the Ava DuVernay‘s film Selma. The film is both a tribute to the 1963 marches held in Selma, Alabama (that would lead to the 1965 Voting Rights Act) and is partially a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic. Common, one of the film’s stars, has recorded its theme […]