Will walk a mile to see Chadwick Boseman act in anything including reading from the phone book if that's his choice. After his stunning performances as James Brown in "Get On Up" and as Jackie Robinson in "42" what else? Here he is as a young Thurgood Marshall in...

When the hate and inhumanity of man against man makes it seem sometimes like the bad guys and bullies are winning, don’t fret. For there are always some who will stand up in the face of it, and with courage, love and a belief that we are better than that, prove the best of who we truly are…

This film is written and directed by Matt Ruskin, distributed by Amazon Studios. The production entities are: Iam21 Entertainment, Washington Square Films and Black Maple Films. Lakeith Stanfield stars as Colin Warner, the Trinidadian youth who is falsely accused and...

One of my early pivotal experiences was a family trip to Puerto Rico where a relative was a professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. On the trip, my relative chaperoned me around the island, educating me on the island, the culture, the people, the history. One of his favorite stops was an Art Gallery. His significant other was an artist who had paintings there. Lucky for me! I was stunned by the beauty of the paintings, the environment, the color, the approach to reality through a different lens. My relative must’ve had a streak of Guru-itis or a bit of Henry Higgens in his DNA as my next new exposure was to sit and listen to Mascagni’s CAVALERIA RUSTICANA. I’m grateful for the education.

Back at work on the Freedom Summer play with Ricardo Khan and Sibu Mamba. Of course, since my first and only novel (thus far, anyway) is about Freedom Summer, I’ve been spinning around in my brain to come up with NEW STUFF that I didn’t use in “Freshwater Road.” We’ve covering the same history so I absolutely wanted to find or try to remember any and everything that I did not use in “Freshwater Road.” This is challenging. I’ve had to open a new research vein going into a different part of the state of Mississippi with a slightly different geography and a slightly different history. I’m writing about the Delta now, an area of the state I did NOT touch in “Freshwater Road.”

“I Am Not Your Negro.” features Samuel L. Jackson delivering one of most nuanced and vulnerable narrations I’ve ever heard. Baldwin’s words for sure but Jackson’s reading of them is intimate, personal and heartfelt. This is a “story” that Baldwin began but unfortunately for us, did not complete before his death. It’s an examination of his responses to the deaths of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King…