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HIPPEST TRIP- THE SOUL TRAIN MUSICAL Producer Wendell Pierce Says Show Is Coming to Broadway

Tony Award- winner Wendell Pierce has announced that he has joined the producing team of the Broadway-aimed Hippest Trip- the Soul Train Musical!

Wendell Pierce to Play 'Perry White' in James Gunn's SUPERMAN Film

According to various sources, Wendell Pierce will play the Daily Planet Editor-in-Chief Perry White in James Gunn's Superman, opposite David Corenswet (Clark Kent) Rachel Brosnahan (Lois Lane), and Skyler Gisondo (Jimmy Olsen), who work underneath Pierce's White at the Daily Planet.

The Museum Of Modern Art Announces Dates For Its 2024 Film Festivals And Annual Series  

The Museum of Modern Art announces dates for its film festival lineup for 2024.

SOUND OF THE POLICE Documentary Is Coming to Hulu

ABC News Studios announced “Sound of the Police,” the new Hulu Original documentary directed by Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Stanley Nelson and co-directed by Valerie Scoon. The feature-length documentary, which will have a special preview screening at the BlackStar Film Festival.

ImageNation's 21st Annual IMAGENATION OUTDOORS Film And Music Festival Returns For An Epic Summer Of Entertainment

ImageNation's 21st annual IMAGENATION OUTDOORS Film and Music Festival is happening July 7th to October 21st. ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Events include an Eastside and Westside Open Streets Movie series, Drive-In Movie series, New York City Parks screenings, a Black Anime Series, a Great Day Harlem Food & Music Festival and a Soul Train Tribute to Hip Hop's 50th Anniversary.

The 20th Annual Imagenation Outdoors Festival to Launch with Aretha Franklin Bio-Pic RESPECT

ImageNation Film Festival's 20th Annual ImageNation Outdoors Festival kicks off Saturday July 9th thru September 10, 2022. 

World Channel Celebrates Juneteenth With 19 Films

Selections from its curated playlist by noted filmmakers including Stanley Nelson, Ken Burns, Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster, Sam Pollard and Yoruba Richen run all month on a variety of platforms, including WORLD Channel, WorldChannel.org, WORLD Channel’s YouTube Channel and Facebook page, PBS Passport and on the PBS app.

Peabody Awards Announces 2022 Presenters

Peabody today announced that Melissa McCarthy, Morgan Freeman, John Legend, Kevin Bacon, H.E.R., Ethan Hawke, Jon Stewart, Hasan Minhaj, Riz Ahmed, LeVar Burton, Jenny Slate, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Scott, and more will present the winners of the 82nd Annual Peabody Awards.

SFFILM Announces 2022 Golden Gate Award Winners

The Festival made its long-awaited return on April 21, inviting audiences back into the theaters with a program filled with unique stories and perspectives from around the world and the Bay Area.

The HISTORY Channel to Premiere New Documentary AFTER JACKIE

The film features new and rare interviews with White and Gibson, before his untimely passing, as well as former and current baseball players such as CCSabathia, Mookie Betts, Ken Griffey Jr., Joe Torre, Dave Roberts, Al Downing and Tim McCarver, renowned sports journalists, and unlimited access to Major League Baseball’s expansive media archive.

The HISTORY Channel Greenlights AFTER JACKIE Documentary

The two-hour film tells the story of the second wave of Black baseball players after Jackie Robinson – such as Bill White, Curt Flood and Bob Gibson – who were up next in the fight for equality. The film features rare interviews with former and current baseball players such as CC Sabathia and Mookie Betts.

VIDEO: Showtime Releases Oscar-Shortlisted Documentary ATTICA For Free

SHOWTIME delves inside the bloodiest prison rebellion in U.S. history with Attica, a feature-length documentary from Emmy-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson (Freedom Riders, The Murder of Emmett Till) and co-director Traci A. Curry. the documentary features original interviews with former inmates, family members of the hostages and other witnesses.

BAM Announces 2022 MLK Celebration In-Person and Virtual Offerings

BAM will host a series of events on Monday, January 17, 2022, in celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Anchoring the celebration is the 36th annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which will take place in the Howard Gilman Opera House and also be available via livestream at 10:30am.

BAM Announces 2022 Brooklyn Tribute To Dr. Martin Luther King Programs

Continuing a tradition in its 36th year that has evolved into the largest such gathering in New York City, BAM hosts the annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, January 17 at 10:30am in the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue) with activists, musicians, civic leaders, and the public for a communal commemoration and reflection of the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. King.

Woodstock Film Festival Announces Lineup for 22nd Anniversary

The festival features documentary surrounding Alanis Morissette, Miles Davis, Julia Child, and more. 43 feature films including 11 world premieres, 6 US premieres, 7 east coast premieres, and 7 New York premieres, as well as 85 shorts will premiere throughout the 5-day period.

Variety & Rolling Stone Announce Programming for Inaugural Truth Seekers Summit

Keynote speakers will include Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog of War) with panels from documentarians behind Allen v. Farrow, Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer, and more.

Claire Danes, Hugh Dancy, Tamara Tunie, Joy Reid & More Join Harlem Stage Virtual Gala

Harlem Stage today announced the line-up for its 2021 virtual gala, “Art and Activism,” to be held on Friday, May 21 at 8 PM (ET), co-hosted by poet and playwright, Carl Hancock Rux and Harlem Stage artistic director and CEO, Patricia Cruz, and directed by filmmaker, Sekou Luke.

The HISTORY Channel Greenlights Documentary TULSA BURNING: THE 1921 RACE MASSACRE

The HISTORY® Channel will also join the Russell Westbrook Why Not? Foundation, Endeavor, RedFlight Innovation and Values Partnerships to create an educational and experiential campaign focused on the history and legacy of Tulsa’s Black Wall street.

PSEG: True Diversity Film Series Presents BOSS: THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN BUSINESS

How does the business world fit into the fight for racial equality?

PJ HARVEY - A DOG CALLED MONEY Will Premiere Dec. 7

On December 7th, preeminent global theatrical distributor Abramorama will host the North American streaming premiere of the documentary film, PJ Harvey - A Dog Called Money.