The brave, intuitive, hard-fighting New York detective was portrayed wonderfully on Luke Cage by Simone Missick. One of the few and most esteemed Black characters in old-fashioned noir fiction is ...

In another scene, Detective “Gravedigger” Jones (Godfrey ... a decade that forever changed both cinema and himself: Black film in the 1970s. “Like so much of Black culture, it’s severely ...

But the film’s impact can also be seen in a lineage ... Sidney Poitier’s portrayal of Virgil Tibbs, a Black detective from Philadelphia who gets picked up as a suspect for a murder on a ...

Like other holidays, you can celebrate Juneteenth with a movie night. Here are 10 impactful ones starring Black actors and made by Black filmmakers.

“Black Eye” is a richly atmospheric detective film that deserves to be more well known than it is; its pleasures are similar to the canonized “The Long Goodbye” and “Night Moves.

McGhee’s story is one of several powerful narratives that highlight Black South Florida stories to emerge in the past few ...

“Before there was Millie Black, there was Detective Inspector Shirley Dillon ... And that’s just not true at all,” James says of shows and films not from the U.K. or the U.S. “If I ...