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*The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, a multi-cultural festival of solo artists, celebrated 20 years of presenting live theatrical performances in the Los Angeles community last night. Since 1993 this small company, which began with a “chance meeting” of two solo actors from differing cultures, Adilah Barnes, an African American; and Miriam Reed, an Anglo, [...]
*Quentin Tarantino sparked something quite interesting or just beat all other filmmakers to the punch. Seven more ‘slave’ themed films are scheduled to premiere this year. One IdieWire.com writer speculates Hollywood is on a celebratory kick, commemorating the 150-year anniversary of the Civil War. Among the seven films to expect this year are “Twelve years A [...]
*Actor Danny Glover stirred up a hornet’s nest when he discussed the roots of the Second Amendment during a recent college appearance. He told the audience that the legislation was ratified to protect against slave revolts. as a result, a conservative student group is launching a petition against the school’s “leftist bias.” Glover appeared at [...]
*Common returns to the big screen this weekend in “LUV,” a drama set in Baltimore’s inner-city featuring the rapper/actor as an ex-convict uncle who is idolized by his newly-orphaned 11-year-old nephew. Woody (Michael Rainey, Jr.) gets a crash course in what it means to be a man when he spends a day with his Uncle [...]
*John Legend, Russell Simmons, Danny Glover, Brad Pitt and filmaker Eugene Jarecki released joint statements in praise of President Barack Obama’s evolution on the enforcement of marijuana legislation on Wednesday, agreeing with Obama’s assertion that “we’ve got bigger fish to fry.” The president was discussing recreational marijuana use in Colorado and Washington, two states that [...]
*The film adaptation of Zane’s erotic fiction novel “Addicted” just got a little steamier. Shadow and Act is reporting that tantalizingly attractive Tyson Beckford joined the cast, along with sassy, sexy Emayatzy Corinealdi, fresh off her starring role in “Middle of Nowhere.” This is going to be good, so hide yo’ kids. The film is [...]
*Award-winning filmmaker and director, Eugene Jarecki, and actor/activist Danny Glover, are coming together to talk about the new controversial film “The House I Live In.” The film is an inside look on the war on drugs, how much the black community has lost, and the true beneficiaries in the damaging system. “The House I Live [...]
*Known for Hollywood blockbuster successes such as The Color Purple, and Lethal Weapon, these days, Actor and Activist Danny Glover is using his celebrity and fame to raising awareness to a new “Lethal Weapon”: the AIDS Epidemic. Danny Glover joined more than 25, 000 advocates, policymakers, researchers, and pharmaceutical companies from around the world for [...]
*Actress Kimberly Elise is switching up her role and has taken on the task of becoming a rowdy lady from the 1900s in a new Hallmark film, “Hannah’s Law.” The film, airing this Saturday (8pm ET/PT, 7pm C), also stars Danny Glover, who plays famed outlaw Isom Dart, the main character’s father figure. Elise plays [...]
*Fans of the new Fox drama “Touch” learned the hard way that Danny Glover’s co-starring run was only temporary. Last Thursday’s episode ended with Glover’s character, Prof. Arthur Teller, slumped over his car’s steering wheel, dead under mysterious circumstances. Series creator Tim Kring confirms to TV Guide that the actor had signed on to only [...]
*”LUV,” a coming-of-age story that premiered last month at Sundance, has been acquired by the Indomina Group and BET Networks, the companies announced Saturday. Common, Michael Rainey Jr., Dennis Haysbert, Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Meagan Good, Lonette McKee and Michael Kenneth Williams star in the movie about Woody, an 11-year-old orphan who reveres his [...]
*For twenty years Ayuko Babu (pictured) has set at the helm of what was once perceived as an impossible dream. Undaunted by the challenges, he trudged forth with the noble assistance of Danny Glover and Ja’Net Dubois and founded the Pan African Film Festival (PAFF). Babu is an African Affairs specialist in legal, cultural, and political [...]
*Activist and university professor Angela Davis – the former Communist Party associate and Black Panther Party member whose afro and raised fist alone personifies the black power movement of the 60s and 70s – says she isn’t 100 percent satisfied with the current occupant of the White House. “Of course there are critiques that I would [...]
*”The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975″ is an eye-opening, compelling documentary that captures the tumultuous period in history when African Americans were fighting against racial injustice in a country that denied them equal rights. The film, which opens Sept. 23rd in Los Angeles, is playing exclusively at the Landmark Nuart Theater. Co-produced by Danny Glover and [...]
*During the Black Power Movement back in the Sixties and Seventies, most folks only got to know its leaders mostly by way of sound bites disseminated by the mass media. Whether it was Stokely Carmichael’s demand “We want black power!” or H. Rap Brown’s appeal for riots via “Burn baby burn!” or Eldridge Cleaver’s assertion [...]
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