Documentaries

The film that explores the role that district attorneys play in the mass incarceration epidemic, debuts on Monday, Nov. 7.

Ava DuVernay continues to prove why she is one of the busiest women in Hollywood these days, as details of her next project emerge. The filmmaker’s documentary project The 13th is set to be the opening night film of the New York Film Festival. Ava DuVernay apparently loves to spoil her audience and fans because […]

  Via Essence: A new documentary about Martin Luther King Jr and the Civil Rights Movements is coming to a theater near you. 7AM is a film based on the past and current struggles Black Americans trying to create and maintain an economic infrastructure in the U.S. Take a look at the trailer below:

Many people claim that the 90’s  was one of the best decades in Hip Hop culture.  Great music was made and great loss was felt with the murders of both the Notorious BIG and Tupac Shakur.  National Georgoraphics is examining the era to include Tupac’s murder in a new National Geographic documentary. A portion of […]

This year is a big one for Nas. His debut album, “Illmatic,” turned 20 this year, and the new documentary about the album’s process, “Time…

The heavily publicized deaths of young Black men like Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and Sean Bell have inspired discussion, debate and analysis of why society…

In September 2012, producer, DJ and lecturer 9th Wonder announced that he was beginning a hip-hop fellowship at Harvard University. His experience contributing to the…

Young Jeezy’s long awaited new album TM103: Hustlerz Ambition will be in stores tomorrow. In advance of that music Jeezy has released the first forty minutes of his documentary, A Hustlerz Ambition. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson the movie takes viewers behind the scenes with  Young Jeezy while he tours the world. The doc includes […]