Ossie Davis and Rudy Dee were one of the most revered couples of the American stage as well as important figures in the civil rights movement. On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Our picks for events in and around Chicago this weekend. Maggie Daley Park Ice Skating Ribbon Sunshine is in the forecast on Nov. 14, opening day for the Ice Skating Ribbon in Maggie Daley Park. Lose ...

Until now, Ossie Davis’s Purlie Victorious (A Non-Confederate Romp through the Cotton Patch) had not been professionally performed in the UK. In fact, despite there also being a musical iteration ...

Inside of Monaleo’s two-story fortress, in the outskirts of Houston, you’ll find a scene that looks straight outta one of those Black Christmas movies right before the fuck-up older brother shows up.

CHICAGO — The media image of the American farmer rarely reflects the existence of Black farmers, who take center stage in the documentary “Seeds,” which is on the schedule of this year’s Black Harvest ...

Oct. 17 (UPI) --The Siskel Film Center at the Art Institute of Chicago announced its lineup for this year's Black Harvest Film Festival, which begins Nov. 7. The festival is in its 31st year of ...

Who would have thought, back in 1961, that a play set in the segregated Jim Crow days of the South, with rampant racism on display, could use comedy as its weapon, rather than straight drama? Longtime ...

At the end of his life, famed singer, actor, activist and athlete Paul Robeson came to live in West Philadelphia in 1966 with his sister Marian R. Forsythe in a three-story home at 4951 Walnut St.

Kara Young has a new nickname: Two-Times. I feel like a Scorsese antihero when I say it, but I think it’ll stick—it honors the extra­ordinary achievement Kara unlocked this year when she was awarded ...