“Mudbound” is a movie about how things change — slowly, unevenly, painfully. It is also, as the title suggests, about how things don’t change, about the stubborn forces of custom, prejudice and power that lock people in place and impede social progress. …”
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Spike Lee discusses terrorism, race and his work at Virginia Film Festival | Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Terrorism is terrorism,” Lee said Saturday afternoon just prior to screening his 1997 documentary, “4 Little Girls,” for a standing-room-only audience at the Paramount Theater.
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Dee Rees wanted to make ‘an old-fashioned movie’ and ended up with an Oscar contender | The Washington Post
At the Middleburg Film Festival in October, the director Dee Rees had tears in her eyes. Her movie “Mudbound” had just brought a packed ballroom to its feet and, even though she had been on tour for several weeks with the film — a sprawling historical drama about two families, one African American, one white, working a hardscrabble patch of land in the American South — she was clearly overcome.
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Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ Being Adapted as Series for Hulu | Atlanta Black Star
The monumental novel, “Invisible Man,” is getting the series treatment on Hulu. Ralph Ellison’s 1952 book is in the early stages of development, according to Variety.
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Harry Belafonte tells crowd at likely last public appearance: ‘We shall overcome’ | The Guardian
Singer and civil rights activist, 90, holds Pittsburgh audience spellbound with tales of his life and denunciation of Trump as a national ‘mistake’
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Review: Faith Found and Lost in ‘Free in Deed’ | The New York Times
God’s grace seems cruelly missing in “Free in Deed,” a quiet, unsettling story of faith found and tragically lost.
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee taken off Mississippi school reading list | The Guardian
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s classic novel about racism and the American south, has been removed from a junior-high reading list in a Mississippi school district because the language in the book “makes people uncomfortable”.
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Jussie Smollett Reveals He’ll Be Playing Langston Hughes In Upcoming Biopic | Essence
Smollett recently spoke to the hosts of ESSENCE’s Yes, Girl about his small cameo and revealed there’s more to come from the role.
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A Former Superagent Bets Big on a More Diverse Hollywood | The New York Times Magazine
After years as the industry’s top African-American talent agent, Charles D. King is building an audacious new production company — with a vision for bringing long-neglected stories to the screen.
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Michael B. Jordan Partners With Netflix To Bring ‘Raising Dion’ To The Masses | Okayplayer
Michael B. Jordan is staying in the superhero business by producing this 10-episode, hourlong sci-fi black family drama called Raising Dion for Netflix.
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