In the 1980s, there were only 63 Black films by, for, or about Black Americans. But in the 1990s, that number quadrupled, with 220 Black films making their way to cinema screens nationwide. What sparked this “Black New Wave?” Who blazed this path for contemporaries like Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons and Jordan Peele? And how did these films transform American culture as a whole? Presenting The Class of 1989, a new limited-run series from pop culture critics Len Webb and Vincent Williams, hosts ...
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Black Hollywood live hosts Derrial Christon interviews Erica Ash today on Conversations. Erica Ash is an NAACP Award winning Broadway, Film and Television Actress currently starring as Brigette Hart (ex-wife of Kevin Hart) on hit series “The Real Husbands of Hollywood” on BET as well as M-Chuck Calloway on the hit series “Survivor’s Remorse” on STARZ . She was the Original Addie “Micki” Harris and Dionne Warwick in Broadway’s “Baby, It’s You!” and starred in several other Broadway shows including “The Lion King” (Nala) and “Spamalot” (Lady of the Lake) Ash’s TV career started with LOGO’s “The Big Gay Sketch Show” from which she was recruited with a direct offer to join the cast of FOX’s MADtv where she also contributed as a writer having written and sold several sketches to the show which aired on Season 14.
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Black Hollywood live hosts Derrial Christon interviews Erica Ash today on Conversations. Erica Ash is an NAACP Award winning Broadway, Film and Television Actress currently starring as Brigette Hart (ex-wife of Kevin Hart) on hit series “The Real Husbands of Hollywood” on BET as well as M-Chuck Calloway on the hit series “Survivor’s Remorse” on STARZ . She was the Original Addie “Micki” Harris and Dionne Warwick in Broadway’s “Baby, It’s You!” and starred in several other Broadway shows including “The Lion King” (Nala) and “Spamalot” (Lady of the Lake) Ash’s TV career started with LOGO’s “The Big Gay Sketch Show” from which she was recruited with a direct offer to join the cast of FOX’s MADtv where she also contributed as a writer having written and sold several sketches to the show which aired on Season 14.
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