A First-Time Filmmaker Makes a Mark in Cannes Competition with a Senegalese Drama

By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer CANNES, France (AP) — Most filmmakers in the Cannes Film Festival's top-rung competition lineup are well-known directors who have been around...

WGA Strike: Writers Want Job Security, Residual Pay

By Maxim Elramsisy, California Black Media Rae Benjamin, a Los Angeles resident and writer for the Netflix series “The Witcher,” is among more than 11,000...

The Genius of Little Richard Explored in New Film

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent To many, Little Richard lived a complicated life, from his outwardly gay and hypersexual ways to...

Lance Reddick, ‘The Wire’ and ‘John Wick’ star, Dies at 60

By MARK KENNEDY, AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Lance Reddick, a character actor who specialized in intense, icy and possibly sinister authority figures...

Ruth E. Carter Becomes 1st Black Woman to Win 2 Oscars

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr., AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ruth E. Carter made history: The costume designer behind the “Black Panther” films became...

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