Chadwick Boseman’s death leaves saddening mark on rough 2020 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant. Rep. John Lewis. And now, Chadwick Boseman. So far, 2020 has been marred with bad news and tragedy with the deaths of several popular Black icons including Bryant, Lewis and recently Boseman, who died Friday. All three were viewed as […]
NEW YORK (AP) — More than a dozen “60 Minutes” interviews with former President Barack Obama, beginning when he was a U.S. Senator, have been compiled into an audio release. Simon & Schuster Audio announced Thursday that “Barack Obama: The 60 Minutes Interviews” will come out Oct. 13. The audiobook features CBS News journalist Steve […]
The first trailer has been released for Julie Taymor’s upcoming Sundance film The Glorias. In the unconventional biopic, feminist icon Gloria Steinem is played by four actresses: Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Lulu Wilson, and Ryan Kiera Armstrong, each portraying Steinem at different life phases. Adapted from Steinem’s autobiography “My Life on the Road,” the film […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lupita Nyong’o has written a stirring tribute to her late “Black Panther” co-star Chadwick Boseman, calling him a man whose power will “reverberate for generations.” “I write these words from a place of hopelessness, to honor a man who had great hope,” the actress writes in the message posted to her […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The path that brought rapper and activist Genesis Be to a New York City stage, her body draped in a Confederate flag and a noose hung around her neck, was a long one. Growing up in Mississippi, that flag seemed to be everywhere. It was at her elementary school in Biloxi […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Belafonte made history in early 1968. But it was lost to history. While the Vietnam War was raging and civil unrest was convulsing American cities, TV talk show host Johnny Carson did something special: He stepped away from “The Tonight Show” perch for a week. Then something even more […]
Nina Simone’s childhood home, located in Tryon, North Carolina, will be indefinitely preserved through the advocacy organization Preservation North Carolina. Recently, the 600-square foot home had entered a state of dilapidation, which prompted four African American artists––Rashid Johnson, Ellen Gallagher, Julie Mehretu, and Adam Pendleton––to purchase the property in 2017 after witnessing the home’s […]
Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES — “All In: The Fight for Democracy”: Directors Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortés document a timely subject, voter suppression, in this film premiering Friday on Amazon Prime. The film, the latest in […]
The sensational young adult novel Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender will receive its own television series through Amazon Studios and Field Trip Productions. Published in May of this year by HarperCollins, Felix Ever After tells the story of Felix Love, a transgender teen dealing with identity, self-discovery, and the complexities of falling in love. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Janelle Monae says she “felt so much rage and anger” when she stepped onto a former slave plantation for the first time to film the psychological thriller “Antebellum.” In the movie, set for release Friday, the pop star and actress plays a successful modern-day author that finds herself trapped in […]