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‘Why shouldn’t power be Black’? How Miriam Makeba won and lost the US

The Black South African singer defied the odds to become a household name in the US. Then she was cancelled.

Al Jazeera

“David Bowie asked me if I wanted to go out to dinner with John Lennon! I had a big ‘dilemma’ moment; I was hearing certain musical things in my head. I didn’t wanna go out and lose myself”: Carlos Alomar on making Fame, Heroes – and Bowie’s Berlin era

The former David Bowie guitarist talks Young Americans, Station to Station and the Berlin Trilogy, plus recording (and co-writing) Fame with John Lennon

Guitar World

What James Earl Jones can teach us about activism and art in times of crisis

The death of James Earl Jones has forced me to consider the end of an era.

The Conversation

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‘He craved an Oscar’: James Baldwin’s long campaign to crack Hollywood

He pitched slave-ship dramas to Ingmar Bergman, cast Marlon Brando as a bisexual man and wrote a Malcolm X screenplay that horrified the FBI. Why was this cinephile spurned by Hollywood?

The Guardian - UK

Louis Gossett Jr obituary

American actor best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman

The Guardian - UK

Louis Gossett Jr: king of Hollywood’s strong, silent types, from Roots to The Color Purple

The Oscar winner was a trailblazer who was happy to share the spotlight – and part of a disappearing class of Black acting nobility

The Guardian - US

Streaming: The Holdovers and the best films about teachers

From Robert Donat’s heart-breaking Mr Chips to the real-life Mr Bachmann, Judi Dench’s venomous schoolmarm to Paul Giamatti’s classics stickler in The Holdovers, teachers great and awful make for inspirational cinema

The Guardian - UK

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Lulu: ‘David Bowie got me. Part of me thinks: what if the relationship continued?’

The stentorian Scottish pop singer, actor and TV staple answers your queries about Eurovision glory, nibbling biscuits with the Who, and flying high with Take That

The Guardian - UK

Don Warrington: ‘If I could have my time again, I’d be braver’

The actor, 72, tells Michael Hogan about the amazing success of Death in Paradise, meditation and money, prejudice in acting, the worst job he ever had and his problem with hats

The Guardian - UK

Norman Jewison obituary

Director best known for In the Heat of the Night, who saw film not only as entertainment but as a vehicle to confront racism and other socio-political issues

The Guardian - UK

Norman Jewison: a staggering array of work from Hollywood’s master craftsman

The virtuoso Canadian helped craft much of postwar Hollywood cinema, directing Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night, Topol in Fiddler on the Roof and Cher in Moonstruck

The Guardian - UK

32 Actors Who Made Remarkable Career Comebacks

Here's a list of several actors who made remarkable career comebacks.

Cinemablend

32 of the Most Iconic Hollywood Friendships

Some have been going strong for decades.

Marie Claire

32 Hollywood Stars That Lived To Be More Than 90

Here are 32 beloved Hollywood stars who lived to be older than 90.

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Cinemablend

I Don't Think We Talk Enough About Paul Robeson (And What He Brought To The Film Industry)

Paul Robeson was a true Renaissance Man. Here are a few of the movies that I think more people should be talking about.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Ian McKellen's thrilling new show is just the kind of innovation the Evening Standard Theatre Awards celebrate

Our annual celebration of theatre is packed with fresh takes and new stories

The Guardian - UK

Cry, the Beloved Country review – utterly absorbing tale from the birth of apartheid

Zoltan Korda’s 1951 adaptation of Alan Paton’s crusading novel is filled with passion and moral fortitude

Cinemablend

L.A. Law's Blair Underwood talked about his early Hollywood career as a Black actor and meeting Sidney Poitier.

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The Week

Retrograde review: a ‘rousing and propulsive’ show at Kiln Theatre

Ryan Calais Cameron is having quite a year, said Dominic Cavendish in The Daily Telegraph. This spring, his breakout play For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy completed its journey from fringe to West End. Now he has given us something utterly different, and…

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Retrograde; The Secret Life of Bees; Dixon and Daughters – review

Kiln; Almeida; Dorfman, LondonIn his quickfire new McCarthy-era play, For Black Boys… creator Ryan Calais Cameron speaks his mind; a civil rights musical buzzes with potential; and Deborah Bruce’s domestic abuse drama is full of surprises

The Independent UK

Harry Belafonte: Singer, actor and unshakeable civil rights activist

America’s first black superstar’s good looks and sweet calypso sounds allowed him to penetrate the wider public arena – where he tirelessly campaigned for racial equality

The Guardian - UK

Retrograde review – toxicity meets integrity in exceptional Sidney Poitier drama

Ryan Calais Cameron’s terrific three-hander dramatises a meeting in 1955 Hollywood, mapping the dilemmas that actors of colour still face

Evening Standard

Retrograde at Kiln Theatre review: Ryan Calais Cameron’s portrait of Sidney Poitier is electrifying

Ivanno Jeremiah delivers a performance of great strength and delicacy as the pioneering actor

Salon

Harry Belafonte's song of rebellion

Looking back at the King of Calypso's legacy reveals the many ways that his work contributed to the good fight

The Guardian - UK

Belafonte is gone, Poitier went before him. They were the titans who uplifted our world

For us in the African diaspora, they were pioneers who challenged and changed attitudes towards Black men, says Candace Allen, a writer and film-maker

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