DuVernay was also the first black woman to get a budget of over $100 million to direct a film.
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Chloe And Halle Bailey Are More Than Alright | NPR
It’s a cliché, but it’s true: Adults are always complaining about the next generation. Chloe and Halle Bailey have something to say about that.
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Tribeca Film Festival hosts screening and Q&A for ‘Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story’ | New York Amsterdam News
Martin’s extrajudicial killing seemed to reopen a portal to history many had fought to shut tight—a time when the Klu Klux Klan routinely and with impunity killed Blacks in the South and across rural America in the 100 years from Reconstruction through the civil rights era.
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The jewels of Tribeca Film Fest, through April 28 | New York Amsterdam News
One of the best short films we’ve ever seen about race in this country is the animated short, “The History of White People in America…”
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Atlanta’s Zazie Beetz Has Earned Your Attention | GQ
The star of Atlanta and newcomer to Deadpool 2 talks to GQ about her killer year (and all the anxieties that come with it).
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I Saw Myself in ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’ But I Had to Work Hard. | The New York Times
It is still my favorite from childhood, but now, rather than contort myself into Meg, I am able to see how the novel’s play with time and space continues to influence me as an African-American writer.
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Octavia Spencer To Produce New Film About First Black Woman To File And Win Her Freedom Suit | MadameNoire
Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer has been linked to a new project and we’re particularly excited about it. According to Variety, Spencer has signed on to executive produce an independent movie about Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman.
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Grace Jones on a Lifetime of Doing Whatever She Pleases | The New York Times
The documentary “Bloodlight and Bami” showcases the 69-year-old music and fashion icon at her most fierce and most vulnerable.
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Gugu Mbatha-Raw: on Oprah, race and Hollywood | The Guardian
Already one of Britain’s most promising actors, Gugu Mbatha-Raw is now joining the A-list and working with the likes of Oprah, Mindy Kaling and Reese Witherspoon
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These 9 Films Prove Caribbean Cinema Is On the Rise | OkayAfrica
A recap of nine standout films hailing from the Caribbean featured at this year’s Pan-African Film Festival.
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