Television
BET scored this year when it launched its first original scripted drama, “Being Mary Jane,” starring Gabrielle Union as a popular cable TV personality with no shortage of personal and professional difficulties.
July 23, 2014
Movies
“The Inkwell” takes its title from a Martha’s Vineyard beach, an African American enclave since the turn of the century.
April 22, 1994
I applaud Kenneth Turan’s assessment of the bubblingly nascent talent displayed by this country’s premier African American twins in their powerful sophomore feature effort, “Dead Presidents” (“A Bronx Tale Written in Vietnam,” Calendar, Oct. 4).
Nov. 20, 1995
Coming after Spike Lee’s “Clockers” and Carl Franklin’s “Devil in a Blue Dress,” the Hughes brothers’ “Dead Presidents” is the third significant work by an African American filmmaker to be released by a major studio within the last month.
Oct. 4, 1995
Music
“Why Do Fools Fall in Love” is not quite the question asked by this up-tempo, relentlessly cartoonish biopic focusing on the tangled romantic life of an early rock star.
Aug. 28, 1998
March 14, 2017
In a flurry of announcements late Friday, NBC renewed the Debra Messing dramedy “The Mysteries of Laura” and ordered two new dramas, “Game of Silence” and “The Player.”
May 9, 2015
For a show called “Game of Silence,” there’s a lot of shouting.
April 12, 2016
Theodore Witcher, writer and director of ‘love jones,’ hopes his departure film of the black experience opens Hollywood’s eyes.
March 20, 1997
When Jeff Friday founded the American Black Film Festival in 1997, he was inspired by an audience he saw during a Sundance screening of “Love Jones.”
Feb. 22, 2016