A Harlem community gathered to remember Excenia Mette, a 61-year-old grandmother who was fatally shot after getting caught in ...

Taking advice from the late Sidney Potier, Eddie Murphy was told to avoid starring in a 1992 Spike Lee classic that starred ...

"Sidney Poitier said, 'You are not Denzel [Washington], and you are not Morgan ... Associate Editor “They were talking about doing Malcolm X,” Murphy recalled. “Norman Jewison was putting ...

The judge sided with us, ruling that it's not good enough to say that something was posted online and somebody in Florida saw ...

Down the line, the baseball jersey hosts the same 40 Acres patch, with “Supreme” and “40” block letters on the back much like ...

“They were talking about doing Malcolm X [and] Norman Jewison (who directed ... Murphy, Freeman and Washington were all finding their way as Hollywood leading men at the same time.

Poitier was comparing Murphy to Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman, who were both finding their footing as Hollywood leading men around the same time the Trading Places star burst onto the scene in ...

Here we go for the culture. Michael Ealy has been tapped to portray civil rights leader Malcolm X in The Greatest, an upcoming Prime Video limited series chronicling the life of boxing icon Muhammad ...

The film will reunite longtime collaborators Lee and Washington for a fifth time. The duo previously worked on Malcolm X, ...

Everything broke really big and really fast". With Spike Lee behind the camera and Washington in the lead role, 'Malcolm X' earned critical acclaim and box office success. Washington was nominated ...

“They were talking about doing Malcolm X,” Murphy recalled ... And Sidney Poitier said, ‘You are not Denzel [Washington], and you are not Morgan [Freeman]. You are a breath of fresh ...

"They were talking about doing Malcolm X," the Coming to America star explained ... viewed him as a different kind of movie star than Washington or Freeman. "I was in uncharted waters.