Clive Davis announced the news at his pre-Grammys party.
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Major Black presence at Sundance 2018, Jan. 18-28 | New York Amsterdam News
There will never be a shortage of creativity to come from our community.
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[Watch] This Black Panther Toy Commercial Is More Important Than You Understand | Gizmodo
A big part of how we come to love characters has to do with how much we’re exposed to them and how often we’re able to see ourselves in them in a meaningful way.
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The Culture Caught Up With Spike Lee — Now What? | The New York Times Magazine
After more than three decades as a provocateur, the filmmaker has returned to the movie that made him famous.
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Della Reese, Music Icon And ‘Touched By An Angel’ Star, Dead At 86 | Huffington Post
“I know heaven has a brand new angel this day,” costar Roma Downey said.
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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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Kahlil Joseph’s New Film Is Steeped in Harlem’s History. And His Own. | The New York Times
“All of a sudden, I’m a fine artist,” Mr. Joseph said. “All thanks to my brother.”
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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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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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