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Black Harvest Film Festival 2023 Highlights: John Singleton, Tyler Perry, and A Vibrant Artistic Community | Festivals & Awards

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It’s been a year since the festival’s co-founder, the dearly missed Sergio Mims, passed away. Celebrating its 29th iteration, the first program directly untouched by Mims, the festival conjured a theme that implicitly connected the gathering to its enduring past while looking toward a necessary future. Lead Curator Jada-Amina and Coordinator Nick Leffel rang the … Read more

The Power of Community: Steve Cohen and Paula Froehle on the Chicago Media Project’s A Decade of Docs Fundraiser on October 28th | Interviews

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Your goal of championing diversity in filmmaking makes the selection of Geena Davis to deliver the keynote speech at “A Decade of Docs” all the more fitting.  PF: She’s really an icon for going against the grain. Her non-profit, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, requires the town and the industry she works … Read more

Joel McHale replies to Chevy’s recent Community comments

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Joel McHale hears about Chevy Chase’s comments from Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast and responds in kind. The hits resume. Chevy Chase and Joel McHale haven’t heard any bells during the ongoing scuffle between the Community stars. The two have traded barbs behind the scenes of their acclaimed sitcom, and even as the show concluded in … Read more

Chevy Chase Says ‘Community’ ‘Wasn’t Funny Enough’ For Him

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It’s clear that that the relationship between Chevy Chase and the rest of the creative team of Community was not a particularly healthy one. Chase left the series during the production of its fourth season, amidst rumors and allegations of poor behavior and even the use of a racial slur on set during the shooting of the episode “Advanced … Read more

From Despair to Hope: A Costly Phantom Mercury Contamination Scare in the Scarboro Community | Black Writers Week

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A serious news reporting error related to the Scarboro Community in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, occurred on May 17, 1983, forty years ago, that created a level of fear, misunderstanding, distrust, and other negative consequences that have lasted until this day. That erroneous news combined with an apparent lack of scientific literacy among members of the … Read more

Community movie was “very close” to starting before WGA strike

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Joel McHale confirms that the Community movie has been delayed due to the WGA strike, saying they were “very close” to starting filming. Community really is the little show that could. After airing on NBC for five seasons, where it was under a near-constant threat of cancellation, the comedy series finally got the axe. Thankfully, … Read more

Florence Pugh says she caught flack from the indie community for starring in Black Widow

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Florence Pugh says she’s gotten grievance from her fellow actors in the indie film community for joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Loyalty is essential to a person’s character, and breaking away from the norm to explore other avenues often comes at a price. For Florence Pugh, her signing to play Yelena Belova in the Marvel … Read more