Melvin Van Peebles

Among the 60 signers were Princeton professor Cornel West, actress Ruby Dee Davis, film director Melvin Van Peebles, former South Florida congresswoman Carrie Meek, Dr. Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of President Barack Obama's church in Chicago, and Susan Taylor, former editor in chief of Essence magazine.. Read More

The Power of One held its first media conference on December 3 at Hue-Man bookstore in Harlem. Read More

Fanfarlo visits The Current studio for an interview and live performance. Read More

For much of the year, Miami-Dade, like the rest of the country, has trouble thinking. Read More

L. Travis Clark, who 20 years ago was one of the few African-Americans writing and producing for television, died Oct. 30 in Las Vegas after undergoing recent heart surgery. Read More

Seventysomething Melvin Van Peebles plays the lead role from age 15 to 45 in this homely home-video-art love story. Read More

Alfred Preisser and Christopher McElroen, who founded the Classical Theater of Harlem and made it a home for the likes of Samuel Beckett , Euripides , Shakespeare and Melvin Van Peebles , will leave that Off Broadway theater company this month. Read More

I saw Bryant Terry give a keynote at the 2009 Natural products Expo East . Read More

When Deep Throat became a media sensation, giving a smidgen of legitimacy to what was otherwise verboten hardcore pornography, the exploitation impresarios were dumbfounded. Read More

Black Dynamite pokes fun at what is loved and loathed about the classic Blaxploitation films of the '70s. Read More