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Special honors at the 39th Image Awards went to veteran actress Ruby Dee and to singer Aretha Franklin.
A director, actor, & icon for the ages. Spend his birthday with his masterpiece BUCK AND THE PREACHER ('72), starring Poitier alongside Harry Belafonte & Ruby Dee!
Old Hollywood movies had to follow strict guidelines throughout the 1930s–1960s, known as the Hays Code. This basically prevented all US films from featuring anything that was overtly sexual or ...
Lynn Hamilton, Chicago-area actress who starred in 'Sanford and Son,' dies at 95 Hamilton played Donna, fiancee of Redd Foxx’s lead character Fred Sanford. She also acted in the first Black soap ...
Stephen King's The Stand is getting a new theatrical feature from Paramount and Cross Creek Pictures, with Doug Liman directing.
Queenie, formerly Queenie Sateen, will be the first pornstar to be the Queen Mermaid of the Coney Island Mermaid Parade.
Meet Martha Swope, the Legendary Broadway Photographer Who Captured Iconic Moments From Hundreds of Productions and Rehearsals She spent nearly 40 years taking theater and dance pictures ...
Barbara Holdridge, a pioneer for spoken-word recordings, dies at 95 In 1952, she and her friend Marianne Mantell founded Caedmon Records, putting out LP records of poets and authors reading their ...
Actress Ruby Ojiakor warns critics ahead of 2025 wedding Nollywood actress Ruby Ojiakor has issued a public warning to her critics as she prepares to marry her partner, Moc Madu, in 2025.
Dee’s Oscar nomination in 2008 for her performance as the feisty mother of a Harlem druglord played by Washington in Ridley Scott ’s “ American Gangster ” was particularly impressive because the ...
Actress Ruby Ojiakor loses YouTube channel, plans to start afresh Actress Ruby Ojiakor has lost access to her popular YouTube channel after being logged out, preventing her from uploading movies.