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Posted Tuesday 4/20/21 at 2:03PM EDT
Netflix orders Wings of Fire animated adaptation from Ava DuVernay
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Posted Tuesday 3/16/21 at 2:52PM EDT
Report: Hollywood Foreign Press Association rejected press conferences for Black-led projects including Bridgerton
The Wrap reports the group behind the Golden Globes declined to hold press conferences for three Black-led projects: Bridgerton, Girls...
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Posted Tuesday 3/16/21 at 2:30AM EDT
NBC, CBS and ITV used a British journalist whose "crying" story Meghan Markle says was wrong as a "royal expert" to comment on Oprah with Meghan and Harry
As Buzzfeed News notes, despite Markle saying in her CBS special that British media drove her to having suicidal thoughts,...
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Posted Wednesday 2/17/21 at 4:30AM EST
Ava DuVernay felt a responsibility to make Queen Sugar Season 5 "a time capsule of this time for Black Americans"
DuVernay had six of 14 episodes to go when the coronavirus shutdown happened last year.
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Cicely Tyson, pioneering Emmy-winning actress, dies at 96
The iconic actress died today, her manager Larry Thompson announced without revealing details of her death.
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Ava DuVernay is bringing DC Comics superhero Naomi to The CW's Arrowverse
DuVernay is teaming with Arrow executive producer Jill Blankenship on Naomi, based on the DC Comics superhero of the same...
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Posted Monday 10/26/20 at 1:08PM EDT
OWN renews Ava DuVernay's Cherish the Day for Season 2
The renewal follows strong ratings for the first season of the drama series chronicling the stirring relationship of one couple,...
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Posted Friday 10/23/20 at 2:31PM EDT
Ava DuVernay is developing NBC's Sovereign as network TV's first Native American network family drama
Sovereign “chronicles the lives, loves and loyalties of a sprawling Indigenous family struggling to control the future of their tribe...
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Posted Saturday 10/10/20 at 4:24AM EDT
How a group of Black female stars came together to virtually re-create The Golden Girls, Friends and other classic shows
Ava DuVernay, Kerry Washington, Issa Rae, Tessa Thompson, Rashida Jones, Regina King and Channing Dungey are among the prominent Black...
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Posted Friday 8/07/20 at 2:01PM EDT
Ava DuVernay to produce and narrate HBO Max's One Perfect Shot docuseries, based on the popular Twitter account
Inspired by the Twitter account of the same name, One Perfect Shot will feature directors pulling back the curtain on...
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Posted Thursday 7/16/20 at 6:38PM EDT
NBC orders Ava DuVernay house-swapping reality show Home Sweet Home reality show
Home Sweet Home will challenge racial, religious, economic, geographic, gender and identity assumptions by having two families live in each...
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How Netflix became a leader in Black content as the rest of Hollywood scrambles to catch up
Amid the George Floyd protests on June 10, Netflix released a "Black Lives Matter" collection of 56 shows, films and...
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Posted Wednesday 7/01/20 at 10:35AM EDT
Hollywood and the police have a strained and complicated relationship in wake of Black Lives Matter protests
While Hollywood has expressed support for Black Lives Matter and against police brutality, TV and movie productions are reliant on...
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Colin Kaepernick teams with Ava DuVernay for a Netflix drama on his high school years
Netflix has given the six-episode limited series Colin in Black & White a straight-to-series order.
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Posted Thursday 6/18/20 at 6:42PM EDT
Netflix makes When They See Us available for free in honor of Juneteenth
Ava DuVernay tweets that her acclaimed limited series on the so-called Central Park 5 is now available in front of...