Starz is teaming up with Common to develop a new action-drama program based on Marc Olden’s 1975 Black Samurai book series. Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and CSI’s Jerry Bruckheimer will be executive producing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Currently under development, the drama will follow Robert Sand (Common), a highly skilled American Army Ranger whose life is completely altered after meeting a […]
Currently under development, Starz is teaming up with Common to develop a new action-drama program based on Marc Olden’s Black Samurai book series. Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and CSI’s Jerry Bruckheimer will be executive producing.
Marie-Denise Douyon, a Canadian fine artist with Haitian roots, began a life of migratory journeys. Growing up in North Africa, first in Algeria and then Morocco, her unique childhood experiences were meshed with distinctive artistic expressions and multicultural identities, which shaped her into the artist she is today.
Critical Content will develop a scripted drama series based on Manning Marable’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography ‘Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.’
Marie-Denise Douyon, a Canadian fine artist with Haitian roots, began a life of migratory journeys. Growing up in North Africa, first in Algeria and then Morocco, her unique childhood experiences were meshed with distinctive artistic expressions and multicultural identities, which shaped her into the artist she is today. This drifting, nomadic lifestyle is deeply reflected […]
From timely literary essays to lyrical prose and short stories, here are five diverse books to add to your reading list this autumn.
With summer nearing an end, we’re packing away our beach reads and curling up by the campfire with these new and upcoming works of literature by Black women authors. From timely literary essays to lyrical prose and short stories, here are five diverse books to add to your reading list. 1. What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons […]
Based on a true story, Matt Ruskin’s Crown Heights documents Colin Warner’s inconceivable experience of spending 21 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. In 1980, Brooklyn police charge Colin Warner (Lakeith Stanfield), a teenage immigrant from Trinidad, with murder. Crown Heights simultaneously shows Warner’s life in prison and Carl “CK” King’s (Nnamdi Asomugha) unflinching, heroic […]
Based on a true story, Matt Ruskin’s Crown Heights documents Colin Warner’s inconceivable experience of spending 21 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit.
From Dee Rees’ critically acclaimed feature narrative debut Pariah to her Emmy Award-winning Bessie, expectations are soaring high for the talented filmmaker. And with her latest feature already receiving extraordinary acclaim both from Sundance and as an Oscar contender, there’s no question that Mudbound should be on your radar. Based on Hillary Jordan’s compelling novel Mudbound and set during the Jim Crow […]