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The 21st Annual Black Reel Awards took place today with Warner Bros’ rousing drama, Judas and the Black Messiah, taking the marquee Outstanding Film award. In addition, stars Daniel Kaluuya and Dominique Fishback were bestowed with the Outstanding Supporting Actor and  Outstanding Supporting Actress award, respectively. Producers Charles King, Ryan Coogler, and Shaka King become the first all-African American team to win Outstanding Picture.

Meghan Markle stayed in LA as her husband Prince Harry travelled back to the United Kingdom to visit his father King Charles, after it was announced that he had been diagnosed cancer.

FX is touting record performance for the premiere of its new docuseries Dear Mama.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Charles King’s Macro has raised a $90 million minority investment from BlackRock Alternatives, HarbourView Partners and funds managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Macro will use the influx of capital to expand its multiplatform operations across production, branding and talent representation units, said King, who is founder and CEO of Macro. The company will also work to diversify its revenue streams with businesses that build a direct connection with consumers. A former WME partner, King launched Macro in 2015 to focus on content that amplifies underrepresented voices to capitalize on the untapped business opportunity. Macro previously raised about $150 million in a 2017 round of financing that included such investors as Emerson Collective, Ford Foundation and W.W. Kellogg Foundation.

The FX docuseries Dear Mama is set to premiere on April 21 at 10 p.m. ET/PT and will stream the following day via Hulu. The premiere will include the first two episodes of the 5-part series, with one new episode each subsequent week.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterRichard King, a member of the King World Productions family dynasty that build a small syndication firm into an industry powerhouse, died Dec. 7 in Los Angeles after battling heart and lung problems.

Richard King, a founding partner of King World Productions, the syndication powerhouse that was behind such programs as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, has died. He was 79.

Mackenzie Nichols Staff WriterMacro is expanding its talent management operations with the hiring of Jerome Martin and Natalia Williams.The pair join Macro Management as managers. The division was launched in January by Macro partners Gaby Mena and Jelani Johnson.“I couldn’t be more excited to have Jerome and Natalia on our team,” said Charles King, founder and CEO of Macro.

NEW YORK -- Charles King's “Gods of the Upper Air,” a group biography on such groundbreaking anthropologists as Franz Boas, Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston, has received a prominent history award. Frances Fitzgerald won the first-ever Tony Horwitz Prize, established after the celebrated historian and journalist died last year.

NEW YORK -- Charles King's “Gods of the Upper Air,” a group biography on such groundbreaking anthropologists as Franz Boas, Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston, has received a prominent history award. Frances Fitzgerald won the first-ever Tony Horwitz Prize, established after the celebrated historian and journalist died last year.