“I like creating film that really makes the audience think,” said Daniel. In the project, Daniel incorporates close and lingering shots, which he did in order to “reflect on the human experience.” ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Family members, friends and clergy members dressed in white and red honored the life and faith of hip-hop icon DMX at his homegoing celebration Sunday in New York. Religious leaders ...

“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake,” wrote James Joyce in Ulysses. Yaa Gyasi, a writer with a rich talent for visceral story-telling, is part of the wake-up crew. Ancestral curses ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — The homegoing celebration for Ebonie Nacol Gilbert, a beloved woman who made a lasting impact on the entire community, is scheduled to take place on Saturday. Gilbert was born on ...

George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee to his neck for almost nine minutes, was buried in Houston Tuesday after days of memorials that merged religion and politics in ...

Yaa Gyasi’s second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, explores themes of belief, loss, doubt, love, and mice. The protagonist, Gifty, comes from a Ghanaian family living in Alabama that has been cut in half ...

Carlton Daniel Jr., creator and writer of the short film Homegoing, featured at the 2021 American Black Film Festival, sat down with theGrio and opened up about his film, Black queer storytelling at ...