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On Monday, Jan. 16 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day — Oprah Winfrey will be airing a one-hour special in which she welcomes cast members of the landmark 1977 miniseries Roots, 35 years after that production not only captivated the nation and...

Awards season is underway and the cast of "The Help" showed a variety of red-carpet styles at the Critics Choice Movie Awards 2012. We're looking for a green theme at Sunday's Golden Globes....

The NAACP announced its nominees for the 43rd Image Awards Thursday morning at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly HIlls. The awards celebrate the accomplishments of people of color in TV, music, literature and films. The winners will be annnounced...

Here are some notable new and returning television programs profiling memorable people, themes and events in African-American history, in celebration of February's Black History Month. Programs and times are subject to change; check back throughout the...

"The Help" stars Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer discuss their wins at the 2012 SAG Awards...

The box office hit, "The Help," which looks at the lives of maids and their employees in the early 1960s in the South, won best film Friday evening at the 43rd annual NAACP Image Awards....

Today, Time released its 100 Most Influential People in the World list (The Time 100), an annual ranking of “breakouts, pioneers, moguls, leaders and icons” who “inspire us, entertain us, challenge us and change our world,”...

Surely one of 2011's movie "sleepers," given the box-office endurance it displayed from late summer into early fall, this engrossing adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's best seller finds a would-be author (Emma Stone) interviewing Southern housekeepers about...

It is halfway crazy to release a movie like “The Help” in the middle of summer. It is not a film with many blockbuster characteristics. The story takes place in Jackson, Miss., in the 1960s, an era devoid of much recognizable technology....

Whoever heard of June Gloom in August? Most of the television weather people were chattering last week about the cloudy mornings, calling the weather some kind of phenomenon. Of course by the time you read this column, the clouds will be gone and it will...

A face can make a movie work. As a black maid employed by a white family in Mississippi in 1963, Viola Davis has such a quietly intense face that it says all that needs to be said in "The Help." Having grown up under Jim Crow laws, this maid named...

Nearly 100 years after Lincoln freed the slaves, proper Southern ladies entrusted the raising of their children to women of color, but wouldn't let them use their toilets. This is the story of "The Help," the highly watchable movie of the bestselling...