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Black Writers Week
I Am Telling You: Dreamgirls at 20
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A Preview of the 2025 Black Harvest Film Festival
Tributes
11 Times That D’Angelo Made a Movie Better with his Music
Black Writers Week
Intro to Our Juneteenth Edition of Black Writers Week 2025
Features
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
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Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2024: On the Legacy and Importance of The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Tributes
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Black Writers Week
Catching a Blackfamous White Whale on Broadway: Purlie Victorious Comes Home
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Introduction to Black Writers Week 2024
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Hollywood & The March on Washington: When Fame Overcame Fear
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A Piece of His Fire: Harry Belafonte (1927-2023)
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: November 2022
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Festivals & Awards
An Inside Look: Mr. Soul! to Stream Live Sunday, October 17th
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Criterion’s Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films is the Story of a Cinematic Legend
Chaz's Journal
Melissa Haizlip’s Mr. Soul! to Premiere on HBO Max on August 22nd
Festivals & Awards
Mr. Soul! Nominated for Three NAACP Image Awards, Debuts Exclusive Music Video for Show Me Your Soul by Robert Glasper and Lalah Hathaway
Festivals & Awards
Mr. Soul! Nominated for Outstanding Debut Feature at Cinema Eye Honors
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Mr. Soul! Extended in Virtual Theaters Through September 24th
Festivals & Awards
RogerEbert.com Premieres the Theatrical Trailer and Poster for Melissa Haizlip’s Documentary Mr. Soul!
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How We Choose Our Favorite Film, and Why Mine is Joe Versus the Volcano
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: July 25, 2019
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Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: October 4, 2018
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Blu-ray Review: Kino Lorber’s “Pioneers of African-American Cinema”
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Muhammad Ali: 1942-2016
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Bright Wall/Dark Room August 2014: “We’ll Jump and We’ll See” by Chad Perman
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Ruby Dee: 1922-2014
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1996
Roger Ebert
The Moment of Truth Arrives for ‘Malcolm’
Roger Ebert
It’s high tide for black new wave
Far Flungers
“Don’t mess Malcolm up”
Far Flungers
“The Messenger” discussed by Omar Moore of London and San Francisco
Roger Ebert
How do they get to be that way?
Festivals & Awards
Ebert’s roundup: One way or another, there will be Oscars
Festivals & Awards
‘Baby’ stages late-round Oscar rally
Festivals & Awards
Fest means more than just movies
Interviews
Ossie Davis: In Memory
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Gordon Parks’ big score
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