Spike Lee directed a new Chevrolet commercial for the World Series starring 13-year-old Little League superstar Mo’ne Davis, who burst into all of our lives as the standout star of her Philadelphia Taney Dragons baseball team. Davis led her team into victory, and became the first and only Little Leaguer to make it onto […]

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Cameras followed Kehinde Wiley, a New York-based portrait painter, as he decided to explore the inner and outer beauty of Black women for his latest project.…

Legendary photographer Jonathan Mannion is a real G if you subscribe to Lil Wayne‘s logic of real Gs moving in silence like lasagna. Although having been in the game since the early nineties, many don’t recognize the name, but they damn sure know the work. If you’ve ever spent time looking at the photos in […]

  CLEVELAND – Cleveland Natural Parenting just received the go-ahead to premiere a documentary called “The Milky Way,” having to do with women wishing to breastfeed and willing to fight to make things right. The movie is based on the story of Jennifer Davidson, a lactation consultant who is frustrated by the ongoing struggle mothers […]

2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the landmark Nas debut “Illmatic.” In celebration of the anniversary, a documentary chronicling the time, the making of the album, and its effect on the Hip-Hp culture has been made. “Time is Illmatic” was selected as the opening night film at the Tribeca Film Festival (April 16th). Check out […]

Singer Darlene Love accepts the Best Documentary, Feature award for ’20 Feet from Stardom’ onstage during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre on March 2, 2014 in Hollywood, California *Darlene Love took the Oscar audience to church for a few seconds on Sunday. The artist was one of several backup singers featured on the Academy […]

  *The Tribeca Film Festival announced it will open its 2014 run with the world premiere of the Nas documentary “Time is Illmatic,” followed by a performance by the Queens rapper. Directed by multimedia artist One9, written by Erik Parker and produced by One9, Parker and Nas’ manager Anthony Saleh, the film follows the trajectory […]

  *Documentarian Ken Burns, who has put his stamp on such topics as the civil war, national parks, jazz, the Central Park Five and most recently prohibition and the Dust Bowl, will next year turn his attention toward baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson. Set for the fall of 2015, the PBS documentary will  span four hours […]

  *“American Promise” spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, middle-class African-American parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., turn their cameras on their son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, who make their way through Dalton, one of the most prestigious private schools in the country. Chronicling the boys’ divergent paths from kindergarten through high […]

To celebrate and commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, BET will cover the events live from the anniversary March on the Washington…

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In 1995 Russell Simmons teamed with director Brian Robbins and producer Mike Tollin (Tollin/Robbins Productions) to create Def Jam’s Hip-Hop documentary “The Show.” “The Show”…

Maybach Music soldier Wale just dropped his third album “The Gifted.” In order to celebrate, the Washington, D.C. native released a short documentary. The film…