![]() Read the entire interviewĬongressman James Clyburn The “Blessed Experiences” Interview Recent shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Here, he talks about CNN‘s coverage of the snipers, and an Emmy for a special report onĭon earned a degree in broadcast journalism from Brooklyn College where heĬurrently serves as an adjunct professor, teaching and participating inĬurriculum designed around new media. In 2009, Ebony Magazine dubbed Don Lemon one of the 150 most influential Blacks inĪmerica. Read the entire interviewĭon Lemon, Anchoring the National Conversation on Race I try to keep it really varied it just makes for more of a funĪnd interesting career. What’s the point of that? I’ve played the Idris Elba: What kind of role do you play after someone like Stringer, you know what Since “The Wire” ended in 2008, have you made a consciousĭecision to avoid playing gangsters like Stringer Bell? Role as Damon Carter on the TV series Soul Food.Īddicted, the screen adaptation of the steamy best-seller by Of Hollywood’s most sought-after talents. Her third movie, Beyond the Lights, a romance drama co-starringįrom his big screen and television roles to his theater andĮntrepreneurial skills, Boris Kodjoe has proven to be one Image Awards for Best Picture and Best Director. Life of Bees (2008), which also earned its share of trophies, including Gina Prince-Bythewood The “Beyond the Lights” Interviewįilm at UCLA before beginning her career as a writer for the TV sitcom, “Aĭifferent World.” In 2000, she made a noteworthy directorial debut with the She plays Noni, a pop star who falls for her hunky, supportive bodyguard. Here, theĮmerging ingénue compares that role to her new one in Beyond the Lights where She was raised in the lap of luxury by aristocratic relatives. Strength of her inspired performance as the title character inĪbout a biracial slave girl who was brought by her white father to England where Gugu Mbatha-Raw skyrocketed to fame earlier this year on the Gugu Mbatha-Raw The “Beyond the Lights” Interview Here, he talks about his latest opus, “Death of a King.” Read the entire interview Smiley on PBS, and The Tavis Smiley Show from Public Radio International. Tavis Smiley is the host and managing editor of Tavis Directed by Ava DuVernay and produced by Oprah Winfrey and Brad Pitt’s Plan B, the film follows the black fight for the right to register to vote culminating in the march from Selma to Montgomery and in President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965. in the highly-anticipated, civil rights drama Selma. He was recently nominated for a Golden Globe for his stirring performance as Dr. ![]() Read the entire interviewĭavid Oyelowo 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. Here, he talks about making his writing and directorial debut with The Birth of a Nation, a reverential biopic in which he stars, too, as slave revolt leader Nat Turner (1800-1831). Army Air Corps who went on to become some of the finest pilots in World War II. The film chronicled the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American military aviators in the U.S. In 2012, he was a member of the ensemble cast of Red Tails which included Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding, Jr. Nate received an honorary Doctorate from Wiley College, the school featured in the fact-based story. Nate Parker The “The Birth of a Nation” InterviewĪctor/humanitarian-turned-writer/director Nate Parker first received critical attention for his starring role in The Great Debaters opposite Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker.
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