In 1965 the world watched as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lead marches on a relentless campaign for voting rights in Selma, Ala. In 2015,…
Monday, MTV is turning off the color and broadcasting in black and white. The network will air a 12-hour block of programming without color, kicking…
Oprah Winfrey, along with Selma director Ava DuVernay , David Oyelowo and Common will all participate in a march in Selma, Alabama to pay tribute to the…
Predictably, after the swift and cutting backlash from the blinding whiteness of this year’s Oscar nominations – from the front lines of Twitter (see: #OscarsSoWhite) to…
Selma only scored two nods during today’s Academy Awards nominations announcement, leaving the film’s director Ava DuVernay and star David Oyelowo out in the cold. Should we be surprised? Probably…
A chorus of support rang out on social media Thursday in support of Ava DuVernay, whose moving Martin Luther King Jr. biopic “Selma” received an…
The nominations for the 87th annual Academy Awards are in and the Academy didn’t show much love the Ava DuVernay directed film, “Selma.” The civil…
The Oscar nominations are in, and Selma has a chance to take the Academy’s highest honor. Although three-time film director, Ava DuVernay was not nominated for…
Roland Martin talked with Ava DuVernay, director of “Selma,” about the critically-acclaimed film and how she became a director during a recent press event. DuVernay,…
“NewsOne Now” host Roland Martin sat down with actor/rapper Common who portrays Civil Rights activist James Bevel in the Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic “Selma.”…
Thanks to the generosity of several important people in the entertainment industry, over 27,000 students in New York City will be able to screen Selma…
