Chance the Rapper wasn’t at the MTV VMAs because he felt that his video for “Sunday Candy” was snubbed. (Which is correct. I mean, what the hell, MTV?) But his Twitter made it clear that Mr. Bennett ...

The 1930 movie musical “Mammy” is an important -- if almost shockingly racially insensitive -- piece in the canon of the legendary Al Jolson’s career. “Mammy” stars “The World’s Greatest Entertainer” ...

For millions of Gone With the Wind fans, Mammy will always be Oscar-winning actress Hattie McDaniel, tsk-tsking her spoiled charge, Miss Scarlett, and harrumphing because Mammy has more common sense ...

In the early days of the pandemic lockdown that had us all behaving as though we were shut in by a blizzard that would soon thaw, I Netflix-binged a perfect television show: Derry Girls. Set in Derry, ...

One of 11 children, Séamas O’Reilly was just five years old when his mother died. In an extract from his touching new memoir, he recalls with childlike clarity the awful day of her wake One thing they ...

We’re in the last reels of a claustrophobically black-and-white world. The film: “Alice Adams,” the director George Stevens’s 1935 adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel. Determined to marry up, Alice ...

Editor’s Note: Sheryl Lee Ralph is a Tony nominated actress and Independent Spirit Award winner for best supporting actress. Her new book “Redefining DIVA” is published by Simon & Schuster will be ...

Fox Television was hailed this year for developing “Empire,” about the power struggle of an African American family fighting over control of a massive music empire. With its racially mixed cast of ...