Michael Kenneth Williams

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September 13, 2013
theGRIO SLIDESHOW - As the fall television season kicks off, theGrio created a slideshow of the black stars you will…
November 15, 2012
SLIDESHOW - Outspoken filmmaker Quentin Tarantino planned on auditioning almost ever eligible black male actor in Hollywood for the lead…
June 18, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Michael K. Williams talks about upcoming projects including his role as the late rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard....
June 6, 2012
SLIDESHOW - The first black superhero in mainstream comics may soon have his own movie. A new film featuring the…
June 5, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - 'The Wire: The Musical' debuted Tuesday as a Web video for the site Funny Or Die.…
November 16, 2011
SLIDESHOW - Oscar nominee Don Cheadle has made no secret about his desire to portray Davis, and we agree he'd…
October 24, 2011
OPINION - His very appearance can be alternately menacing or tender, owing in part to a highly visible scar that…
September 23, 2011
SLIDESHOW - First released in 1932 and then remade in 1983 in version starring Al Pacino, which heavily influenced hip-hop…
August 1, 2011
OPINION - For black audiences, it could help move along what is readily apparent in all of our daily lives…
July 24, 2011
It's rare that a piece of casting news elicits outright whooping, but the announcement that Michael K. Williams would be…
February 1, 2011
TheGrio's 100 - Williams' portrayal of Omar Little, a shotgun-toting, dealer-robbing, openly gay thug on HBO's 'The Wire,' gained 2007's…