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    Movies and TV Shows to Watch on Juneteeth
    If you're looking for another way to celebrate and commemorate Juneteenth, these films and shows are among the best by Black artists.
    NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 07:  Event honoree Harry Belafonte attends the 2016 Library Lions gala at New York Public Library - Stephen A Schwartzman Building on November 7, 2016 in New York City.  (Photo by Gary Gershoff/WireImage)
    Belafonte's activism changed America, his singing shaped a musical consciousness for generations of Americans, and his acting paved the way for Black performers.
    Akoroko is the new site for African film and television from Tambay Obenson.
    The former IndieWire staffer and Shadow and Act founder wants to give African cinema the attention it deserves.
    Courtney B. Vance as Franklin Roberts and Aunjanue Ellis as Martha Roberts - 61st Street _ Season 1, Episode 1
    Co-starring Aunjanue Ellis and Holt McCallany, the story may not win any points for originality, but its strong performances make it worthwhile.
    KING RICHARD, from left: Demi Singleton, as Serena Williams, Saniyya Sidney, as Venus Williams, Will Smith, as Richard Williams, 2021.  ph: Chiabella James /© Warner Bros. /Courtesy Everett Collection
    In recognition of Will Smith's acclaimed performance in Oscar contender "King Richard," here is a ranking of his best movies. 
    FILE - This Sept. 10, 1971 file photo shows inmates of Attica State Prison as they raise their hands in clenched fist salutes to voice their demands during a negotiating session with New York's prison Commissioner Russell Oswald. The whistleblower who spurred a major state investigation of alleged crimes and cover-ups at Attica prison is still on the case four decades later. Ex-prosecutor Malcolm Bell, now 82 and retired to the Green Mountains of Vermont, recently filed court papers in support of opening long-sealed investigation volumes. (AP Photo, File)
    Director Stanley Nelson tells IndieWire how the nation's "bloodiest one-day encounter" shaped the present-day state of criminal justice.
    THOMASINE AND BUSHROD, Vonetta McGee, Max Julien, 1974
    While audiences wait to see what the hype around "The Harder They Fall" might lead to, here are a handful of Black westerns worth a look right now.
    "The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey"
    The new Apple TV+ limited series will tug at heartstrings, but the story of a sick, dying man who gets a chance to live his end days out loud lacks vigor.
    Nikyatu Jusu, J.D. Dillard, Numa Perrier, and Radha Blank
    "Are people STILL with that 'transcend race' BS?" wrote "The Forty-Year-old Version" director Radha Blank. "That's not for me."
    US, Director Jordan Peele, on set, 2019. ph: Claudette Barius / © Universal / courtesy Everett Collection
    Measurable diversity in the director's chair continues to be stagnant, and it's not COVID's fault.
    RACE: Bubba Wallace
    Director Erik Parker spoke to IndieWire about making his Netflix docuseries and balancing the duality implied in its title.
    THE ENDGAME -- "Pilot" Episode 101 -- Pictured: (l-r) Morena Baccarin as Elena Federova, Ryan Michelle Bathe as Val -- (Photo by: Eric Liebowitz/NBC)
    Stars Morena Baccarin and Ryan Michelle Bathé spoke to IndieWire about fronting the international heist crime drama.
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