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Hattie McDaniel is best known for her performance as Mammy, the sassy foil to Scarlett O’Hara in the movie classic Gone with the Wind. Her powerful performance won her an Oscar® and bolstered the hopes of Black Hollywood that the entertainment industry was finally ready to write more multidimensional, fully realized roles for Blacks. But despite this victory, and pleas by organizations such as the NAACP and SAG, roles for Blacks continued to denigrate the African American experience.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year In this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid off patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots...

Cien años perpetuando la Leyenda Negra. El cine bélico surgió en 1898 con motivo de la guerra que Estados Unidos provocó contra España. La prensa, los cineastas y los políticos justificaron esa agresión recurriendo a los clichés de la Leyenda Negra, que ha sido utilizada por Hollywood y...

Here’s a secret: Hollywood insiders aren’t better at dating than the rest of us. They just have elite help. The age-old art of matchmaking meets Hollywood as Jaydi Samuels Kuba, founder of LJMatchmaking, takes us behind the scenes of her work as a matchmaker and date coach for the...