Viola Davis

Dlamini brings new life to a role born from resistance and South Africa’s historic youth uprising

The movie tells the story of basketball’s most infamous sneaker, the Air Jordan

This International Women’s Day we salute the African American women who’ve continued to forge formidable careers

Five-time Grammy winner Terence Blanchard talks composing score for the box office hit

Mail & Guardian Friday editor Lerato Tshabalala chats to ‘The Woman King’ director Gina Maria Prince-Bythewood about working with Viola Davis and Thuso Mbedu

The evolution of technology has changed how music is produced, removing the need to have a contract with a record label to do it. With more musicians choosing to be independent,…

Emmy-nominated actress Thuso Mbedu credits inclusivity, equality, and sustainability to getting her career to where it is today. As a Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South African,…

Pioneer actor and activist Sidney Poitier, who died at age 94, alchemised the Black condition into a dignified on-screen presence in the 20th century. Bongani Madondo wrestles…

The life of blues pioneer Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey and her song Black Bottom have been turned into a film. Bongani Madondo laments its anticlimax

The awards ceremony will be re-screened tonight on M-Net channel 101 at 8.30pm.

Theatre and film input for black Britons remains low, say people in the industry, because those in charge are too conservative in their thinking.

From Cassper Nyovest’s new track "Ashes 2 Ashes" to Hollywood novelist Jackie Collins’s death, here’s what has been making headlines this weekend.

From what actors like Lupita Nyong’o and Scarlett Johansson wore, to the death of legendary jazz musician Clarke Terry, here’s what had us talking.