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Adapted from the novel by Don Robertson, Jimmie Walker plays a high school basketball player stricken with leukemia. Tony nominated director Gilbert Moses enlists a strong supporting cast, which includes James Earl Jones, Kevin Hooks and Debbie Allen (... -
Chris Rock visits beauty salons and hairstyling battles, scientific laboratories and Indian temples to explore the way hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of the black community in this exposé of comic p...
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Women, money, power, greed, passion, desire, love, wealth, secrets, seduction, family, sadness..choices. Protagonist Mikey searches for an alluring good life in an underworld where antagonist Fabian holds all power. Younger brother, Kevin, wants in, ag...
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In this gritty drama, Rob, an ambitious photographer, attempts to document life in the hood. He falls in with a crew who introduce him to gang life, but once the bodies start piling up, Rob realizes that he is in too deep. Will he make it out alive?
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What About Your Friends? (1995)| Lark Voorhies Monica Calhoun Malinda Williams Gina Prince-BythewoodWhat About Your Friends is a one-hour film written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (Beyond The Lights, Love & Basketball) that takes a unique look at the senior year successes and failures of three high school girlfriends as they prepare for coll...
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In 1939, African American leaders respond to Jim Crow segregation by building a rocket to colonize Mars. The three person crew blasts off, but time travel instead, arriving in present-day America revealing much about race today. Directed by Kevin Willm...
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The River Niger is a 1976 film adaptation of the 1972 Joseph A. Walker play of the same title. The film was directed by Krishna Shah, and starred James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, and Louis Gossett, Jr. The film had a limited commercial release in 1976 a...
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When Tyrone, owner of the Honeydripper lounge, is faced with having to shut down his juke joint, his hopes rest on one man, the famous Guitar Sam. It is a make or break weekend for the Honeydripper.Director: John Sayles2008Stars: Danny Glover, Lisa Gay...
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When a son follows his father's footsteps, it's usually a family blessing. For the Clay family, it's a life sentence.As Leonard Clay (Lou Gossett, Jr.) winds down his 15 year sentence at a maximum security prison, his role of peacekeeper is challeng...
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A Huey P. Newton Story (2001) is an American film adaptation directed by Spike Lee. The movie was created, written and performed, as a solo performance, by Roger Guenveur Smith at The Joseph Papp Public Theater. In this performance, Smith creates a rep...
