Spike Lee

February 22, 2019

The Pain and Genius of Terence Blanchard’s music in “BlacKkKlansman”

By Kristen Bates
Blanchard is a distinguished jazz musician and film composer. He had won five Grammy’s for his work up until BlacKkKlansman and now, for the first time, is nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Music Score category.

February 20, 2015

Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter Re-Creates History In Selma

By Alecea Rush

The March 1965 cover of Ebony Magazine featured a photo of Martin Luther King Jr. leading hundreds in the march to Montgomery. Ruth E. Carter, costume director for the Academy Award nominated film Selma used this cover to springboard her research and creative process for the movie.