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Ava DuVernay 

DuVernay is walking into another career first as the buzz continues to grow around her new film “Origin.”

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A new Florida museum is highlighting the contributions of Black actors to film history. 

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Vroom. Vroom. Zoom. In his bedroom, he’s a helluva a race car driver. On the racetrack, he’s even better. That’s according to this very engaging bio/spo/dra.

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Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie in Barbie  

Do blondes have more fun? She does. He doesn’t.

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Sarah Nurse in Black Ice  

Hard to imagine that in the late 1800s men of African descent played hockey in Canada. That’s a major surprise considering the demographics of today’s National Hockey League. But there’s a backstory, an evolution and lots of it is quite sobering.

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The film stars Kingsley Ben-Adir as the reggae icon, focusing on Marley’s humble beginnings in Jamaica to his rise as an international superstar.

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Play opens June 9 and runs through July 2. BIPOC affinity night, a.k.a. The People’s Party, will be held on Friday, June 30.

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Last February, Oprah Winfrey announced the revival of “The Color Purple,” a 1985 film produced by Steven Spielberg starring Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, and Laurence Fishburne based on Alice Walker’s 1982 book of the same name.

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There is something for everyone at the movies this summer, both in theaters and streaming at home.

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Little Richard in Little Richard I Am Everything 

Before Elvis, David Bowie, Prince, Harry Styles and Lil Nas X there was Little Richard. The bright, shiny North star of rock and roll.

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