Slideshow: Action! Obama White House film screenings
theGRIO REPORT - Throughout President Obama's years at the White House, the first couple has screened variety of movies, documentaries, and television shows...
Co-creator of 'Dark Girls' is back with new documentary, ‘The Black Line'
A new documentary, by acclaimed filmmaker D. Channsin Berry, aims to further the conversation about what it means to be a black woman in America.
Ruby Dee celebrates 90th birthday with Harlem documentary screening
Hundreds of invited guests took seats in the auditorium, and after a brief intro by Angela Bassett, the Schomburg screened Life’s Essentials With Ruby Dee.
Beverly Johnson featured in HBO's 'supermodel' documentary
One major issue many of the famous faces -- including '70s legend Pat Cleveland -- shared through their stories was the pressure to diet and become extremely thin.
Diddy 'borrows' title from LGBT culture film
theGRIO REPORT - 'Paris is Burning', the original Jennie Livingston-directed film, chronicled the 'ball' culture in New York City's disenfranchised and neglected black, Latino, and queer communities...
'Undefeated': Oscar-winning film defies cliches
OPINION - In the midst of all 'The Help' controversy, far less attention has gone to that other Oscar 2012 winning movie with a largely black cast -- 'Undefeated'...
Documentary explores 'slavery by another name'
TheGrio REPORT -- The 90 minute film, "Slavery By Another Name," based on a book by journalist Douglas A. Blackmon, chronicles how hundreds of thousands of blacks in the South continued to exist in a form of quasi-slavery well into the 20th Century...
