Dancing in September is centered upon the relationship between a sitcom scriptwriter Tomasina “Tommy” Crawford (Nicole Ari Parker) and network executive George Washington (Isaiah Washington) and their attempts to gain success as African-America...
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Wattstax, directed by Mel Stuart and filmed by David L. Wolper, was a film that chronicled a benefit concert put on by the Stax Records company for the 7th Annual Watts Summer Festival. The festival was created to commemorate the riots that o...
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This film involves an ultraconservative, African-American television executive, Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) and his work at Continental Network System (CNS). Attempting to distance himself from his roots, he has changed his birth name, Pe...
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Starring: Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman, Jr., Esther Rolle and Loretta Devine
Down in the Delta, a story of family and the importance of legacy, is centered upon the main character, Loretta Sinclair (Alfre Woodard). Poorly educated and addicte...
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Directed by Hype Williams, Belly is set in Queens, New York. It’s the last year of the 20th century and the film centers upon the paths of Sincere (Nas) and Buns (DMX) and their life of crime. Having one of the most memorable opening ...
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Set in 1962 Eve’s Bayou is centered upon the life of ten-year-old Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett) and her family in Louisiana. The child of an affluent, Creole American family, Eve’s parents are Louis Batiste (Samuel L. Jackson), a physicia...
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On the heels of their first blockbuster film, Menace II Society, Albert and Allen Hughes co-wrote, directed and produced the crime drama, Dead Presidents (1993). The film, primarily set in the Bronx borough of New York City, centers around t...
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Set in Houston, Jason’s Lyric, centers upon the life of a young, African-American man, Jason Alexander (Allen Payne). Caring, affable and responsible, Jason is dedicated to his mother, Gloria (Suzzanne Douglas), and his brother, Joshua (Bo...
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This title of this film is a moniker given to Town Beach in Oak Bluffs, the area populated by African-Americans at Martha’s Vineyard of the Cape Cod islands of Massachusetts. The beach, frequented by Blacks since the late 1800s, was derisiv...
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Sugar Hill is the story of two brothers, RayNathan (DeVaughn Nixon as a teen and Michael Wright as an adult) and Romello (Dulé Hill) as a teen and Wesley Snipes as an adult) Skuggs, and their life, highly influenced by drugs, in Harlem.
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