Black TV movies

Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat 62 years ago was only the beginning. Premiering on TV One in February, Behind the Movement offers a closer look at how the history-making Montgomery Bus Boycott was planned in just three days and ultimately led to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. A new trailer released […]

Actresses Valarie Pettiford and Telma Hopkins are stage and screen veterans who used to star together in the beloved sitcom Half and Half.  The two are reuniting for TV One’s original movie, Welcome to the Family, premiering on Saturday, September 26th at 8 p.m. Pettiford and Hopkins are among the fabulous grown Black women who have found […]

  Robert Townsend has been a film and TV director for many years but in his new film Playing For Love premiering on Up TV on Sunday, he covers new ground. The rom-com, which also stars Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Jennifer Lewis and Laurence Hilton-Jacobs allowed Townsend to help kids in Miami learn filmmaking. “The story behind the […]

Lifetime was already going big on Black women in January, with the premiere of the Whitney Houston movie set for January 17th at 8 p.m. Now they’ve doubled down with the announcement of another big movie that will appeal to Black women. With This Ring, the TV adaptation of the book The Vow written by former […]

  Actress Taraji P. Henson keeps a job. The actress left Person of Interest last season but jumped right back into TV in Empire, the upcoming Fox drama also starring Terence Howard playing a Diddy-style record business mogul. Henson plays his wife, whose been in jail for years after a drug conviction. Yet somehow, Henson […]