Movie Review: The Harder They Fall
By Dwight Brown, NNPA
They’re roughriders. Badasses. Pistol packing outlaws blasting bullets.
The setup for this shoot ’em up started with the 2013 short movie...
Spike Lee as Seen Through His Brother’s Lens
By Jake Coyle, AP Film Writer
When David Lee was growing up in Brooklyn, his older brother would drag him out of the house whenever...
Melvin Van Peebles, Creative Genius
By Julianne Malveaux, TriceEdneyWire.com
One of the first Broadway plays I ever saw was Melvin Van Peeble’s Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death. A....
Baltimore Writer, Producer and Director Continue to Shine in Hollywood
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
Patricia Cuffie-Jones, a graduate of Mergenthaler (Mervo) Vocational High School in Baltimore City, continues to make...
Jennifer Hudson Plays Her Idol Aretha Franklin in ‘Respect’
By Lindsey Bahr, Associated Press
Jennifer Hudson was fresh off her Oscar win for “Dreamgirls” when she was summoned to meet Aretha Franklin in 2007....
