Sterling K. Brown, Jurnee Smollett and Jeremy Pope on Television Re-Imagining Black History

Lovecraft Country…well, get on it. The HBO series, which airs Sunday nights at 9 p.m., stars Jurnee Smollett and Jonathan Majors in a twisty sci-fi drama set in 1950s Jim Crow America.

It felt as if the world stopped spinning when Chadwick Boseman died.I had just spent my Friday evening watching Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, in which Boseman plays Stormin’ Norman, the courageous leader of a team of Black soldiers in the 1st Infantry Division who was killed during the Vietnam War, when I heard the news. My friend, with whom I had discussed the film earlier that day, called and told me she didn’t know Boseman had really died.

Jacob Blake in Wisconsin.James Brown, who will be the host, hopes the five-hour block will allow everyone to take a big-picture approach to what is currently happening.“We need to understand our past and what we have learned,” he said. “This is one step in the process where we are supporting the country to be engaged.

Sterling K. Brown has taken to Instagram to share some touching words about Chadwick Boseman.

This Morning's Alison Hammond is set to explore Black history in a brand new series for ITV. As part of Black History Month, the presenter will go on the ultimate school trip as she travels the length of Britain to visit key historical sites, re-examining the history taught in schools from a different angle.

Janet W. Lee The stars came out for a good time on Wednesday night to raise money for a good cause.The 11th annual Oasis, hosted by Tommy Dorfman, served as a fundraiser for the Ali Forney Center, the nation’s largest homeless shelter and services organization for LGTBQIA youth in New York City.The hour-long virtual program, directed by Alan Souza and written by Nick Sahoyah, raised more than $60,000.Here are five highlights from the program:1.

Andrew Barker Senior Features WriterJust in case it wasn’t obvious before, the recent demonstrations over the death of George Floyd have done much to lay bare just how spotty and incomplete much of America’s understanding of its own racial history has often been.

Jurnee Smollett is dishing on the possibility of playing Black Canary again!

Audrey Cleo Yap “Lovecraft Country” marks the second time Jurnee Smollett and creator Misha Green have worked together, extending their creative relationship from two seasons on WGN’s historical drama “Underground” to HBO’s buzzy horror series, based on the novel of the same name by Matt Ruff. The show is executive produced by Jordan Peele and J.J.

straight to your inbox Pep Guardiola said that the team will discuss what went wrong in a hotel meeting after their Champions League crash against Lyon. The Manchester City manager was asked about Raheem Sterling ’s astonishing miss – which would have made it 2-2 – but Guardiola appeared to broaden it out into a post-mortem on the whole performance, which was littered with errors.

Jurnee Smollett has made notable appearances on everything from to. Most recently she starred on co-creator Misha Green’s short-lived WGN America series and was enlisted to play Black Canary opposite Margot Robbie in.

Blake Shelton is trying to help fans who are eager to get their money back.

Will Thorne Staff WriterWhen Archie (Jeremy Pope) is threatened with being removed from his own screenplay because making a movie written by a Black screenwriter would “sink the studio” in Netflix’s “Hollywood,” he responds with as much composure and restraint as he can muster.

Jurnee Smollett has signed with CAA. The actress, previously with ICM, will next been seen in Jordan Peele's period sci-fi series Lovecraft Country on HBO.

and YouTube, so there’s no excuse for not watching them.Here's a list of documentaries that can educate you on how we got here, and help you take your allyship a step further: The 13th amendment officially ended slavery in the United States back in 1865, and Netflix’s 13th, named after that amendment, delves into why slavery never really ended and was basically just replaced with mass incarceration.

According to Jurnee Smollett, she has been subjected to sexual harassment on a regular basis while working in Hollywood. Hot New Hip Hop picked up on comments from the actress today in which she explained how she has been harassed on nearly every set.

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