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WATCH: Gabrielle Union Praises the Younger Generation for Being Fearless
Boss girl moves! Gabrielle Union shows love to Issa Rae and Quinta Brunson for being fearless when navigating the media industry.
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Director A.V. Rockwell Wins Sundance Grand Jury Prize With 'A Thousand And One' Starring Teyana Taylor
Black women led the charge at Sundance's closing awards ceremony, which saw prizes for film releases and documentaries highlighting Black stories. Sundance Film Festival closed out its highly anticipated return to Park City, Utah over the weekend with its annual awards ceremony, recognizing the standout films and documentaries that moved audiences and impressed judges.
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BET Announces New Documentary Series ‘Black + Iconic: Style Gods,’ Hosted By Billy Porter
The groundbreaking four-part show examining seminal Black icons in fashion, music, film, and dance, will premiere Saturday, February 18 at 8pm ET/PT. Today, BET announced its new four-part, eight-hour documentary film series from Emmy Award-winning Executive Producer Stanley Nelson and Firelight Films. The groundbreaking BET original franchise, Black + Iconic celebrates Black cultural icons, pioneers, and activists and their impact, influence and legacies in fashion, music, film, and dance.
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Vivica A. Fox Teams Up With 3M For ‘Skilled,’ A Docu-series Celebrating Unsung Trade Workers
The documentary sheds light on skilled trades and the importance of dispelling harmful stereotypes around them. Often, trade employers find themselves fighting against stigmas associated with their industry: they work dirty jobs, are unskilled laborers, and hold less value in the workforce than 4-year college degree-holders. 3M is aiming to...
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Michael B. Jordan Jokes About Life After Lori Harvey Split During SNL Monologue
The 'Creed III' actor talks public perceptions, joining Raya, and being in therapy after his first public breakup. Heartthrob and former PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive, Michael B. Jordan, had the chance to crack a few jokes about his split from Lori Harvey during his Saturday Night Live debut. As part of his opening monologue, Jordan shared how he handles his very first public breakup after parting ways with Harvey in June 2022 following a year of dating.
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'To Live And Die And Live' Is A Moving Film With Displaced Parts
Though there are many meaningful and evocative scenes within the overarching story, there are periods within the film that feel disjointed as a cohesive body of work. While watching director Qasim Basir’s latest project, To Live and Die and Live, at Sundance Film Festival there were moments where I, like the audience around me, wished that we could watch this away from the dark theater filled with strangers and in the company of our loved ones. That way, we’d be free to openly express our thoughts about — or shout at — the protagonist, Muhammed (Amin Joseph), and encourage him to make better decisions. Whether it’s to beg him to put down the bottle of liquor he’s drinking from, to not get in a car and drive after he’s consumed said bottle of liquor, or to follow his stepsister Lisa (Dana Gourrier) into the mosque where he’s instructed her to deliver a payment to the imam for the funeral of their father (figure), the audience has things to say.
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