After five years, Ms. Lauryn Hill finally has new music on the way! The new song will be featured on Queen & Slim’s official soundtrack, which is set to be released on November 15th. The soundtrack will feature 17 songs from modern day artists such as Vince Staples, Tiana Major9 & EARTHGANG, BJ The Chicago […]
The 14th Annual Peachtree Village International Film Festival (PVIFF 2019), the Southeast’s premiere international film and arts festival returns with exciting new partners, educational forums and networking from Oct.24-27th, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. JARO is proud to sponsor its 2nd Annual Short Film competition on behalf of PVIFF. This year, documentaries will be included […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — “The Casagrandes,” Nickelodeon’s new original animated series that centers around an 11-year-old girl trying to survive a big city, is one of the first cartoons in the U.S. to feature a multigenerational Mexican American family. The long-awaited spin-off from the network’s popular animation series, “The Loud House,” premiered Monday and comes […]
LOS ANGELES — Deon Taylor doesn’t take no for an answer when it comes to filmmaking. And it’s a word he hears all the time. When no one wanted to make his first film, he made it himself and even persuaded Rutger Hauer to be in it. When the studio said they couldn’t afford Oscar-nominated […]
Beginning in 1979, the Philadelphia-born Communist activist and archivist Marion Stokes (1929–2012) taped American television twenty-four hours a day for 35 years. Stokes would compulsively record all genres of television, from sitcoms and commercials to political news coverage and war footage. Now, there’s a new documentary by Matt Wolf titled RECORDER: The Marion Stokes Project, […]
This Valentine’s Day, a charming and intimate portrayal of Black love is on the way. In what appears to be the dreamiest pairing, Lakeith Stanfield and Issa Rae have joined forces for Universal’s upcoming film The Photograph. Written and directed by Stella Meghie (The Weekend), her latest project centers on a young woman, […]
Jordan Peele and JJ Abrams’ Lovecraft Country has received a brief preview as part of HBO’s 2020 trailer featuring their new and returning series. Based on Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel by the same name, Lovecraft Country has been adapted for television as a one-hour long anthological horror series. It focuses on 25-year-old Atticus Black, who […]
This past summer, Kid Cudi announced that his newest project, Entergalactic, will be released in 2020. The cutting-edge album will also be accompanied by an animated Netflix series, with each song having its own half-hour long narrative. Black-ish creator Kenya Barris is the executive producer for the upcoming series, and he recently shared his thoughts […]
The multi-talented actress Cynthia Erivo has received two nominations for the Golden Globe Awards ceremony in 2020. The first comes from her admirable performance as the heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman in the biopic Harriet. Erivo also earned a nomination for the film’s original song Stand Up, which she co-wrote with Joshuah Brian Campbell. Erivo is […]
Although Us was snubbed for a Golden Globe nomination, the psychological horror film has received three awards from the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA). Taking home the highest honor, Us has been named the best film of 2019 by the AAFCA. Peele also received the Best Director award, and Lupita Nyong’o took home the […]