Shaped by early hip-hop culture, his documentaries put race in the foreground, whether the topic was hip-hop fashion, the ...

Brian Wilson and Sly Stone were musical innovators whose public reputations diverged drastically towards the end of their ...

The honors bestowed upon Blake in his later years were many and well deserved, including having his name on a park and a ...

The farewell party, presented by BET (Black Entertainment Television), was the last in a series of concerts the first couple had hosted at the White House ... on that!”) or Richard Pryor ...

Cannes: The amusing black-and-white trifle about the making of Jean ... is to make one, then director Richard Linklater’s answer to making a tribute to “Breathless” might instead be to ...

Back in 2015, those were the prescient words of Richard "Dick" Blake ... Blake and his buddies from all-Black Monroe High used to play football with White athletes from Cocoa High on Saturdays.

In Barry Jenkins’s reimagining of Colson Whitehead ... There is one recurring slow-motion sequence, of a young Black woman tumbling down a ladder into darkness. She is trailed by a flailing ...

The best new play trophy at the Tony Awards went to “Purpose,” while “Maybe Happy Ending” took home the award for best new ...

As a filmmaker, Jenkins was also a force in the industry. Most recently, he produced the documentary “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues ... s Gonna Be All White,” “Around The Way ...

using humor and competition to provoke discussions about what it means to be a “real” rapper and how white artists fit into a predominantly Black musical tradition. Jenkins, who’s credited ...