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Despite a long, trailblazing career as a popular singer of jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts, and Oscar and Emmy nominations, Ethel Waters is hardly known or recognized today among younger generations of movie and music lovers. Waters became the second Black actress to be nominated for an Academy Award, in 1949 for Pinky, a movie about passing, in which white actress Jeanne Crain played a light-skinned girl.

Each weeknight NAACP Image Awards is revealing several winners via streaming presentations on the NAACP Image Awards' website and YouTube in the lead up to a live show set to air on BET on Saturday, February 26 with the Golden Globe nominee Anthony Anderson hosting, Grammy winner Mary J. Blige performing, and Golden Globe nominee Samuel L.

La représentation des Noirs en France au cinéma ou à la télévision a toujours été faible. Des professionnels tentent d’en expliquer les raisons, notamment à travers deux récents documentaires édifiants.

Actor Will Smith, actress Sherri Shepherd, and journalist Jemele Hill are just a handful of the stars who won awards at the NAACP Image Awards on Monday night. This year the show is virtual and happens over six consecutive nights.

Vaudeville spanned from the early 1880s to the early 1930s, and at its height, employed more than 50,000 people in 5,000 venues all over the country. Musicians, dancers, magicians, jugglers, ventriloquists, puppeteers, animal acts all occupied the same bill and kept audiences entertained.

In a country where language, music, food, dance, spirituality, and culture are filled with all things Africa, one would imagine that Black filmmakers and actors would dominate the movie and TV scene in Brazil. Think again.

Freda (Nehemie Bastien) is the eldest daughter of Jeannette (Fabiola Remy), a single mother who owns a little grocery store in Port-au-Prince. She is expected to carry the heavy load of the day-to-day tasks, while her sister Esther (Djanaina Francois) wishes to get married to a wealthy man, and her brother Moïse (Cantave Kervern) wants to emigrate in search of a better fortune.

When John Singleton died on April 28, 2019, at the age of 51 following a stroke, one of the numerous tributes to him was by Barack Obama who tweeted, “His seminal work, Boyz n the Hood, remains one of the most searing, loving portrayals of the challenges facing inner-city youth. He opened doors for filmmakers of color to tell powerful stories that have been too often ignored.

“When I went to work in a studio, I took my pride and made a nice little ball of it and threw it right out the window,” said director Dorothy Arzner in a 1933 article in Silver Screen magazine entitled “Get Me Dorothy Arzner”. Whatever tribulations she went through to build a career in Hollywood that started in silent films, in an industry dominated by men, Arzner, almost forgotten now, has more major studio directorial credits than any other woman to this day.