Posts Tagged ‘lorenz tate’
Larenz Tate, Questlove, Michael K. Williams, others attend Urbanworld film screenings
The year of transcendent black directors and breakthrough films with black casts continues along with the 17th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival presented by BET Networks in New York. Actually, black directors are producing quality films every year. But a confluence of agreeable circumstances produced the meteoric successes of Lee Daniels The Butler, while Steve McQueen’s…
Read MoreCelebrities seeking justice for Trayvon Martin
A stunning array of celebrities took to social media to demand justice for the slain teen Trayvon Martin as the jury began deliberations in the George Zimmerman second-degree murder trial. The likes of Miley Cyrus, Gabrielle Union, Christina Milian, Amber Rose, Lorenz Tate, basketball stars, football players, reality stars and others blacked out their Twitter…
Read More‘Menace II Society’ 20th anniversary: Where are they now?
The early and mid-1990s saw the meteoric rise in popularity of gritty urban films that gave audiences a glimpse into life in South Central Los Angeles (now called South L.A.) and New York including Boyz N the Hood, Menace to Society, Juice and South Central, among others. Menace II Society, which debuted at the end…
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