Movies: Wendell Pierce

A lesbian teenager unsuccessfully juggles multiple identities to avoid rejection from her friends and family. Mounting pressure from home, school, and within wears the line between her personas thin with explosive consequences....

Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements of that production - including powerful readings from Coates’ book - with documentary footage from the act...

Phillis Wheatley Elementary School was a significant landmark in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, serving as an important educational institution for African-American students for nearly half a century. The school was known for its innovative m...

Det. Moreland does not like his new partner, McNulty, until they find they have a common hobby....

Max can't face his yuppie future. Graduation's only weeks away and he's having second thoughts. Inspired by the campus radio station, he decides to get a little crazy....

In 1920, a young African-American woman sets off to Africa to find a tree that promises eternal life....

The biography of Jimmy Valvano, American sports reporter and basketball coach, who died of cancer in 1993....

Upcoming biopic of Master P, the hip-hop mogul, CEO, and founder of No Limit Records....

Set among the cane fields of rural Louisiana, Burning Cane follows a deeply religious mother struggling to reconcile her convictions of faith with the love she has for her troubled son....

Two kids on the run from a scary life come across two adults running away from their past....

A drama centered on the friendship between B.B King and young musician Michael Zanetis....

an intimate look at the traditions associated with New Orleans’ music and the preservation of those traditions through the work of local musicians and educators who mentor young talent; museum curators who care for musical treasures; historians and a...

An English playwright sacrifices his health waiting for his play's make-or-break opening on Broadway....

Valentino Dixon is a talented artist that used art to keep his sanity while in prison, often drawing up to ten hours a day after he was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1991....