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I am so excited about this movie. It is high time for our stories to be told! HBO has finally released the first trailer for its upcoming anticipated film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Starring Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne and 2016 Tony winner Renée Elise Goldsberry, the made-for-television movie tells the real life story of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cervical cancer cells were […]

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*I’m tempted to tell you that the exceptional new “Hidden Figures“ is the best movie I’ve seen this year. Since 2017 is just out of the gate, that comment might be seen as more than a little glib. So I’ll go out on a limb and say this: Hidden Figures is the best movie I […]

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So, folks are pressed because Octavia Spencer will be play ingthe role of God in the upcoming film, The Shack. I mean, I don’t see the problem, it’s not like we know what God really looks like anyway. I’m more than sure folks are mad because  she will be sprinkling a little more #BlackGirlMagic dust all over […]

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Pharrell Williams, alongside Columbia Records and 20th Century Fox, has released three brand new tracks featured in the new forthcoming film, Hidden Figures. Listen to “I See A Victory” featuring Kim Burrell and Pharrell Williams, “Surrender” featuring Lalah Hathaway and Pharrell Williams, and “Runnin’” featuring Pharrell Williams today. Both “I See A Victory” and “Runnin’” […]

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Pharrell Williams, alongside Columbia Records and 20th Century Fox, has released three brand new tracks featured in the new forthcoming film, Hidden Figures. Listen to “I See A Victory” featuring Kim Burrell and Pharrell Williams, “Surrender” featuring Lalah Hathaway and Pharrell Williams, and “Runnin’” featuring Pharrell Williams today. Both “I See A Victory” and “Runnin’” […]

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Amazon today announced its first Amazon Original Special “An American Girl Story–Melody 1963: Love Has to Win” is scheduled to premiere on Friday, October 21 on Prime Video in the US and UK. The first of four original “American Girl” specials for Prime Video stars Marsai Martin (“Black-ish”) as the title character Melody, Frankie Faison […]

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Awww man, not Radio Raheem! Veteran actor Bill Nunn, most famous for playing Radio Raheem in Spike Lee’s Oscar-nominated film “Do The Right Thing,” has died. According to Nunn’s wife Donna, her husband lost his battle to cancer on Saturday in their Pittsburgh home, the Associated Press reported. Nunn was only 63-years-old. Lee took to Instagram to […]

Praise Report

  getty images: Hillsong UNITED’s highly anticipated documentary, Let Hope Rise, arrived in U.S. theaters this past weekend. The film was played in 816 locations nationwide and garnered $1.3 million in sales in opening weekend, according to THR, landing in the #13 spot on box office charts. For more information on local showings and planned international […]

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*Richard T. Jones and Kim Fields are currently in production on a faith-based film from Silver Lining Entertainment. Jones and C. Thomas Howell topline “A Question of Faith,” which will focus on a diverse community that comes together following a tragic texting and driving accident, eventually uniting through prayer and their quest for forgiveness. At […]

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Growing up the only child of divorced parents in rough southeast D.C., Taraji P. Henson remembers, “My mother would be sitting at the table crying over a bill, and I’d walk in and be like, ‘Mom, don’t cry, I’m going to be rich one day!’” “We never lived in the projects, but we were in the […]