Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
When people talk about the “slap heard ’round the world,” they’re talking about a few seconds that permanently shifted American cinema. In 1967, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, In the Heat of the Night gave audiences a moment they had never seen before. Sidney Poitier’s Virgil Tibbs — a Black homicide detective […]
Universal Pictures is set to produce a biopic about the life of Martin Luther King Jr., based on the critically acclaimed biography “King: A Life” by Jonathan Eig. Comedian Chris Rock is in final talks to direct and produce the film, with Steven Spielberg as an executive producer. READ: Check out the Full Cast List […]