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So you may recall back in March (HERE) I reported about a new documentary in the works called Black Tea: The New Civil Right, or as I would like to call it, as I said back then (and still do), The Descendants of Stephen (for those of you who know Django). I first heard about the [...]

Continue Reading Kickstarter Campaign For New Doc About Black Tea Partiers (Yes There Are A Few…)

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Well, it’s worked for some, and not well for other *celebs* who’ve taken to Kickstarter recently to raise money to finance their feature film projects. I’m sure Shemar Moore hopes that his campaign falls under the former category. His project is a romantic comedy titled The Bounce Back, which he’ll star in, along with Nadine Velazquez [...]

Continue Reading Shemar Moore Takes To Kickstarter To Raise $1.5 Million To Finance Romantic Comedy

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As I said, when I hosted one of screening before of the L.A. Rebellion black film series a few weeks ago, when it came to black filmmakers, these were the black filmmakers I knew and who inspired me before other more famous black filmmakers attracted the public’s attention. Long before Spike lee, Reginald Hudlin John Singleton, Antoine [...]

Continue Reading ‘Spirits of Rebellion’

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Summer doesn’t officially begin until June 21, but we can agree that the summer movie season is underway, with typical fare like Star Trek Into Darkness and Iron Man 3 already raking in box office cash by the tank-load, worldwide.  Meanwhile, this weekend will see the opening of Fast Furious 6 trailer and The Hangover Part III [...]

Continue Reading A Summer Movie Season Preview – What’s On Your ‘Must

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It’s not what you think. It’s not a reboot of Def Comedy Jam. Russell Simmons has signed a two-year first-look deal with HBO. So what does that mean exactly? Well, basically, HBO has the right of “first refusal” on projects Simmons proposes to develop. And if HBO, after “first looking” at a proposed project, isn’t interested [...]

Continue Reading Russell Simmons Is Returning To HBO

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  It might seem like a far fetched idea to people in Africa and all over the world. Some prominent members of the Jewish community say the link between the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel and today’s Igbos is a myth. What would propel thousands of Igbo people in Nigeria (and growing) to believe they [...]

Continue Reading Review: ‘RE-EMERGING: The Jews of Nigeria’ Inspires w/ Passion, Knowledge & Conviction

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Bottom line, people are not comfortable with Zoe Saldana playing Nina Simone because they believe that Zoe is “not ethnic enough”, “doesn’t have Nina’s features”, “doesn’t have Nina’s nose or lips”. Ummm, have you seen Zoe’s features? Basically, people are saying that Zoe is not black enough to play Nina Simone. How is that determined?  [...]

Continue Reading Nina Simone & Zoe Saldana

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Bottom line, people are not comfortable with Zoe Saldana playing Nina Simone because they believe that Zoe is “not ethnic enough”, “doesn’t have Nina’s features”, “doesn’t have Nina’s nose or lips”. Ummm, have you seen Zoe’s features? Basically, people are saying that Zoe is not black enough to play Nina Simone. How is that determined?  [...]

Continue Reading Nina Simone & Zoe Saldana

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Ahead of next week’s premieres of the two new Tyler Perry serials on OWN - the one-hour ensemble drama The Haves and the Have Nots, which is set to premiere on Tuesday, May 28 at 9 pm ET/PT, in a 2-hour pilot, and the sitcom Love Thy Neighbor, which will premiere on Wednesday, May 29 at 9 pm ET/PT – the [...]

Continue Reading Tyler Perry On Why Hollywood Lacks Roles For Black Actresses (OWN ‘Next Chapter’ Preview)

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Ahead of next week’s premieres of the two new Tyler Perry serials on OWN - the one-hour ensemble drama The Haves and the Have Nots, which is set to premiere on Tuesday, May 28 at 9 pm ET/PT, in a 2-hour pilot, and the sitcom Love Thy Neighbor, which will premiere on Wednesday, May 29 at 9 pm ET/PT – the [...]

Continue Reading Tyler Perry On Why Hollywood Lacks Roles For Black Actresses (OWN ‘Next Chapter’ Preview)

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