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Ava DuVernay Continues to Kill It With a S3 Renewal For ‘Queen Sugar’ and a New Deal with Oprah

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Click to read at The Mary Sue.

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#ICYMI Dope’s Rick Famuyiwa Might Make a Modern-Day Martial Arts Movie

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Read about it at The AV Club.

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Kellee Terrell’s Short Film Depicts the Haunting Guilt of Ignoring Sexual Assault

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Watch at io9.com.

Director Kellee Terrell

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Jordan Peele & J.J. Abrams to Executive Produce New HBO Series LOVECRAFT COUNTRY

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Read all about it at the Daily Dead!

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Director Steve McQueen Honoured with BFI Fellowship at London Film Festival

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Read all about it at The Guardian.

Per The Guardian, the Oscar-winning film-maker is the first black director or producer to receive the prestigious award.

Steve McQueen holding the Best Picture Oscar statuette for 12 Years a Slave, March 2014

Steve McQueen holding the Best Picture Oscar statuette for 12 Years a Slave, March 2014

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Ava DuVernay on Modern Slavery in America

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Click here to read at The New York Times.

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Ava DuVernay Illuminates the Connection Between Incarceration and Slavery in Netflix Documentary “13th”

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Read all about it and watch the trailer at The Mary Sue.

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Oprah Is the First Big Name to Join the Cast of Ava DuVernay’s ‘A Wrinkle In Time’

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Check it out at io9.

Oprah in 2009

Oprah in 2009

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New ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Poster Revealed!

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See more photos at Comingsoon.net.

Opens in theaters on October 7.

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“Dope” Filmmaker Rick Famuyiwa is Writing “Greatest American Hero” TV Remake

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Click here to read at Comicbookresources.com.

Robert Culp, Connie Sellecca, and William Katt (the “Hero”) starred in the original TV show, which debuted in 1981.

GreatestAmericanHeroWilliam Katt, star of The Greatest American Hero
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