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Starring Regina Hall, Jill Scott and Eve Jeffers Cooper By Tambay A. Obenson Shadow and Act  Making its world premier as part of OWN Network’s month-long celebration in January honoring civil rights legends who paved the way, will be Light Girls, Bill Duke’s follow-up to his acclaimed documentary Dark Girls, which will air on Monday,…

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By Tambay A. Obenson  Shadow and Act  Regina Hall, Jill Scott, and Eve Jeffers Cooper star as three single friends who vow to get married within a year after attending their best friend’s wedding, in the Lifetime Original Movie With This Ring, which premieres on Saturday, January 24, 2015, at 8pm ET/PT. Brooklyn Sudano, Deion…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Amy Pascal (insert) (s_bukley / Shutterstock.com) By Tanya Steele  Shadow and Act.com Here is where Shadow and Act and Indiewire would like to give a warning: the following views are held by the author of the piece. They are her views alone. Yep, mine. Someone please stop this insanity train from moving along the…

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By Kam Williams  Top Ten Big Budget Black Films 1.Selma 2.The Equalizer 3.Top Five 4.Belle 5.Get on Up 6.Beyond The Lights 7.About Last Night 8.Think Like a Man Too 9.Black or White 10.Addicted Best Independent Black Films 1.Dear White People   2.Half of a Yellow Sun 3.The Retrieval 4.From the Rough 5.Sucka 4 Luv  Best…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Muhammad Ali (Shuttersock) By Bruce Schreiner Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Boxing great Muhammad Ali was hospitalized with a mild case of pneumonia that was caught early and should result in a short hospital stay, an Ali spokesman said Saturday night. The three-time world heavyweight champion, who is battling Parkinson’s disease, is being…

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ABOVE PHOTO: David Oyelowo (center) in a scene from Selma. Interview with Kam Williams David Oyelowo (pronounced – “oh-yellow-oh”) is a classically-trained stage actor who is working successfully and simultaneously in film, television and theater, and has quickly become one of Hollywood’s most sought-after talents. He was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for his stirring…

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UPDATE from the filmmaker, Ava DuVernay, who shared the following on Twitter, when asked about “Selma’s” SAG shut-out (or at least, what appeared to be a shut-out): “Film not done in time for nominating screeners. All good.”  Surprises? I really expected David Oyelowo would make the cut, especially after all the praise his performance as…

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By Tambay A. Obenson Shadow and Act  A brilliant overview of the last century of film poster art that … every student of African-American history and culture should experience.’ – Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Just in time for the holidays, a new book for that cinephile on your shopping list that I may actually pick…

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As reported by the Huffington Post last week, four of CNN’s hosts are at the center of fiery criticism after boldly expressing their support of protests associated with the deaths of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager that was gun downed by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer, and Eric Garner, an unarmed black male that…

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Interview with Kam Williams Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research at Harvard University. An Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Gates has authored 17 books and created 14 documentary films, including Finding Your Roots,…

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