Russell Hornsby

The Hate U Give is a conversation starter if nothing else. So it is fitting that the film starts off with a conversation, the conversation that all black children receive that their white peers don’t. Maverick Carter (Russell Hornsby) is seen giving his three young children, Seven, Starr (Amandla Stenberg) and Sekani instructions on how to […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Actress Amandla Stenberg was named after a 1989 Miles Davis album — a lush, African-tinged funk fusion that takes its name from the Zulu and Xhosa word for “power.” In South Africa under apartheid, “amandla” was — and still is — a rallying cry against oppression. It’s a lot for Stenberg […]

What happens when a white police officer accidentally kills a Black teenager and tries to hide the crime? Russell Hornsby knows as he’s starring in the Netflix series Seven Seconds that answers this question. “Seven Seconds is a story about a white police officer that kills a Black teen and how once that event happens how it affects three […]