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Richard Roundtree starred in one of the films that sparked the blaxploitation movement -- the original 1971 film, "Shaft." It lasted too long to be a fad, and was probably too much fun to be a movement.

Percival Everett made news 20 years ago at the South Carolina State House, where he stopped in the middle of a speech - he had been invited by the Legislature - and refused to go on because of the presence of the Confederate flag.

Principal James Garza strode onto El Segundo High's North Quad, tennis courts behind him, and pointed to the school's bell tower.

Percival Everett has been publishing continuously since 1983. His work spans multiple genres, including novels, short stories, poetry and a children's book.

In the never-ending quest for cinematic gems hidden in the weekly TV listings, here's what I'll be watching this week: Rod Steiger, left, and Sidney Poitier in 'In The Heat of the Night.' What : "In the Heat of the Night," director Norman Jewison's multiple-Oscar-winning 1967 drama, starring Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier.

Date: Monday, July 27th Time: Films begin at Dusk Location: Bryant Park Cost: Free Bring your picnic baskets and pull up some lawn for an evening under the stars with the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival .

Before crash landing on ''Lost,'' Daniel Dae Kim was a constant presence in TV and movies.

That film is a collaborative art is accepted, but it can also be a war of attrition where inflated egos collide at the interface of culture and commerce.

Here are 10 things to know about "Porgy and Bess," the play, the movie and the opera.

The following are capsule reviews of theatrical movies on network and cable television the week of May 17.

When I was a teenager, one of my favorite movies to curl up and get teary with was "To Sir, With Love." Sidney Poitier plays an engineer who cannot get a job in his field, so he ends up teaching at a school in the East End of London, where many of his students are prejudiced against him.

Sidney Poitier on April 13, 1964, became the first black actor to win an Academy Award for a lead role, for his performance in "Lilies of the Field." Poitier played a handyman who gets persuaded by the strong-willed mother superior of a group of German nuns to build a chapel for them; in one memorable scene he teaches them to sing the spiritual ...

The Associated Press= Today is Monday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2009. There are 262 days left in the year.

Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman in "Paris Blues" When Cinema 21 turned to a beer-and-wine policy that effectively made it a 21-and-over theater, there were some grumblings that Portland's youngest cineastes would be affected.

Bakesta King in Penumbra Theatre's production of "A Raisin in the Sun." I wanted to know two things when I walked into the "A Raisin in the Sun" production at the Guthrie Theater : Would the playa s message of insidious discrimination against blacks still be relevant 50 years after its debut in 1959? And, could this 2009 cast compete with the 1961 ...

Though I've seen the 1961 movie "A Raisin in the Sun" , I'm really looking forward to attending Penumbra Theatre's production opening this week at the Guthrie Theater.

"I got me a dream," the frustrated protagonist of "A Raisin in the Sun" exclaims.

Born and raised in a small and isolated place, Cat Island, The Bahamas. Only two or three years of formal schooling.

Many musicians lead double lives with other creative pursuits. In most cases, their musical prowess greatly overshadows that secondary output.

Joanna Drayton brings her fiance home to meet her parents. The liberal Draytons are white ; the fiance is black ; the movie is Stanley Kramer's "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner " . Tackling the subject of ...