Kerry Washington: What’s in My Bag?

Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentNetflix’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” fulfills an idea that was nearly 40 years in the making: a film version of August Wilson’s play.In October 1984, Variety’s Richard Hummler reviewed its Broadway debut, praising Wilson as “a new writer of talent and power.” He added “The play will likely have a healthy production life elsewhere and could make a gripping film.”Three years later, Variety’s Kathleen O’Steen asked Wilson if he would like to see his plays, such as

Denzel Washington has made a couple’s big day even bigger.

John David Washington is trying to live up to greatness.

Margot Robbie and John David Washington are getting ready for another day of filming!

EXCLUSIVE: Laurence Fishburne will play The Schoolmaster and Michelle Yeoh Professor Anemone in The School For Good And Evil, joining Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Sofia Wylie and Sophia Anne Caruso in the Paul Feig-directed pic for Netflix.

Kerry Washington is taking a break from social media. The star took to Twitter to reveal that she's taking «a little break from the socials.» Washington put together a fun video montage of all the things she would've posted over the month of March had she not decided to go on a social media hiatus.«I love you guys.

Kerry Washington is taking a little break from social media.

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Tamara Tunie has joined the cast of Sony’s Journal for Jordan, the feature adaptation based on Dana Canedy’s 2008 best-selling memoir, which is being directed by Oscar-winner Denzel Washington. Michael B. Jordan and Chante Adams star in the film, which tells the true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Canedy’s (Adams) love affair with First Sgt. Charles Monroe King.

Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Brooks, and John David Washington are all heading to Broadway next year… and then they’ll be turning the play into a movie!

Shelia Washington was instrumental in the exoneration of the Scottsboro Boys, nine young Black men who were wrongfully convicted of raping two white women in a famous 1935 case.The Scottsboro Boys – Haywood Patterson, Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Andy Wright, Roy Wright, Olin Montgomery, Ozie Powell, Willie Roberson, and Eugene Williams – were riding on a freight train through Tennessee when a white mob tried to force them from the train and later accused them of raping two white women.

Less than 36 hours before the Golden Globes, Law Roach sounded utterly relaxed as he was finalizing the details of two of Sunday night’s most high-profile women, double nominee Anya Taylor-Joy (for Emmaand Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit) — who went on to win for the latter project — and presenter Tiffany Haddish.