The national conversation over Trayvon Martin's killing is loud and intense. In some places, it's also vile and violent.
A Florida couple is demanding Spike Lee apologize for retweeting that George Zimmerman lives at their address.
The first hint something was amiss was the knock on the door from a television reporter.
Director Spike Lee issued an apology Wednesday night to a Florida couple who had to leave their home after he retweeted a message that erroneously listed their address as belonging to George Zimmerman.
Filmmaker Spike Lee and CNN's Soledad O'Brien talk with teens in New Orleans about life after Katrina.
Martin Luther King Junior's daughter Bernice talks to CNN's Fredricka Whitfield about the King memorial in Washington.
For nearly a full century before "Glee" became the TV destination for millions of "Gleeks," the Morehouse College Glee Club was navigating through time, history and pop culture in generation-defining style, including singing at the funeral of their Morehouse brother, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Nineteen eighty-nine ... was the number, another summer ..."
Actress Rosie Perez claims in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that she was severely injured while taping an episode of "Law & Order Special Victims Unit" in 2009.
Amar'e Stoudemire was 12 years old when his father died of a heart attack. At the time, his mother was in and out of prison.
The 14th annual American Black Film Festival wrapped up Sunday, with a community showing of its centerpiece film, "Stomp the Yard: Homecoming."
When director Ivan Dixon and writer Sam Greenlee were trying to get the politically charged African-American film "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" made in the early 1970s, they faced major challenges in securing funding.
Filmmaker Spike Lee talks about his new documentary, which addresses the BP oil spill.
The actress will accept the Generation Award on June 6 in her first post-crisis public appearance
Are Charles Barkley, 50 Cent, Mel Gibson or Brit Hume set to put Woods on the right track?
SI.com selects the best (and worst) sports movies, TV shows, books and blogs of the 2000s.
Tiger Woods has changed his cell phone number and is not talking to some of his famous friends, NBA legend Charles Barkley said, following Woods' sex scandal that erupted last month.
NBA legend Charles Barkley and filmmaker Spike Lee tell HLN that they are worried about Tiger Woods.
Did you know that there exists an all-natural remedy for memory loss? Weight gain? Macular degeneration? Prostate enlargement? These products are so successful that clinical testing has already begun! Just listen to the following testimonial from an unidentified person ...
An all-male college in Atlanta, Georgia, has banned the wearing of women's clothes, makeup, high heels and purses as part of a new crackdown on what the institution calls inappropriate attire.
Morehouse College is cracking down on what students wear and has implemented a dress code. We discuss with Dr. Steve Perry.
In 1989, the warnings were dire. The Spike Lee film "Do the Right Thing," critics and columnists said, would provoke violence and disrupt race relations.
Life, work, and racism in America.
"That was raw emotion," says the celebrated film director. "That was a killer"
It requires a tricky balance of luck and preparation for a truly fantastic documentary to come together, and when that doesn't happen -- a subject clams up or proves uninteresting; perhaps the drama simply never unfolds -- most projects get sent to the scrap heap. Or, in the case of Kobe Doin' Work, they air on ESPN.
Spike Lee's still got game. The Brooklyn-based filmmaker brings a full-court press to New York's 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.
The actress says the role of motherhood has made her feel complete
Old warriors are up in arms over a scene in Lee's new film about the
Buffalo Soldiers who helped liberate Italy
Film director Spike Lee opens up on politics and his new movie, "Miracle at St. Anna".
Spike Lee's last film, the gratifyingly tense and tricky "Inside Man," was celebrated -- rightly -- for the way that Lee finally jumped, feet first, into the studio-genre-movie game.
Will Smith has made epic blockbusters a Fourth of July tradition, and Denzel Washington is one of the most recognized faces in show business.
LOS ANGELES -- Celtics guard Ray Allen has a ritual to help him fall asleep on those nights after games when he's still too keyed up to let Morpheus work his magic.
Spike Lee says Clint Eastwood didn't show any African-Americans at the battle. Who's right?
Like a fine baguette on the Croissette, "The Screening Room" is about to become longer, fresher and crisper as we launch a new monthly show -- "The Screening Room Xtra."
A court on Monday postponed the trial of a former dormitory matron accused of abusing pupils at a South African school set up by Oprah Winfrey for disadvantaged girls
Oprah Winfrey speaks out about the alleged abuse scandal at her leadership academy for girls in South Africa.
The Screening Room went to the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane in the heart of London's West End, where a spectacular musical version of "The Lord of The Rings" is enjoying a successful run, to meet Indian composer A. R. Rahman, whose blend of Asian culture with rock and Western classical styles has revolutionized the Indian film industry. And now Rahman is about to make his mark in Hollywood.
Eighteen-year-old Amanda Hill sits on a plastic lawn chair in a gutted home, talking straight into a camera.
Chew on this. A startup called Babelgum is looking to make waves in the burgeoning world of online video.
What better way to tell the story of where New Orleans is going than through the eyes of young people? I've been grappling with ways to talk about the future of the city. Finally it dawned on me: Hand out cameras to young "reporters."
Hurricane Katrina survivor Rockey Vaccarella towed a FEMA-style trailer more than 950 miles to thank President Bush on Wednesday for the government's help in rebuilding the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast.
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Zhang Ziyi didn't act like a prima donna on the set of a recent Chinese movie despite her newfound Hollywood fame, agreeing to shave her eyebrows for the role and even serving homemade soup to the crew, the film's director said.
American film director Spike Lee has praised FIFA president Sepp Blatter for the federation's moves to eliminate racism from the game.
Whoa baby! I'm still catching my breath after Thursday's stupendous rally! Be interesting to see if we can at least hold on here a bit.
Disney Channel's romance between jock-turned-singer Troy (left) and adorable geek Gabriella (below) has gone from TV movie to global cultural phenomenon. What's up with that?
A new "Life," an old poem, and eight other things we recommend this week:
As "Inside Man" busts open, some guys dressed like industrial painters descend on a New York bank, one of those somber marble edifices built to last as long as the dollar rules. The intruders stride in wearing sunglasses, scarflike masks, worker jumpsuits, and painter caps.
Do you have an inside tip on the Texan city? Send us your ideas and suggestions.
The natural successor to Italian 60s screen sirens Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren, Maria Grazia Cucinotta has emerged as one of her country's most striking exports.
Just days after his 65th birthday, groundbreaking comedian Richard Pryor died Saturday of a heart attack, his wife told CNN.
At the ripe old age of 20, Marc Ecko, erstwhile graffiti artist and seller of hand-painted T-shirts, founded his first clothing line, Ecko Unlimited, in New York City. Almost immediately, the edgy ...
The postwar history of American advertising, like the postwar history of pretty much everything, can be divided into three stages. First came the Age of Innocence, in which people who made ads dran...
It's been another embarrassing summer for broadcast television--and this time it's not because of slipping ratings. When the six networks unveiled their 38 new shows in May, onlookers were appalled...
When the head of a 12-week-old advertising agency casually mentions that he's going after--and expecting to get!--a hefty chunk of business from big spenders like Anheuser-Busch and McDonald's, it'...
On April 28, 1938, the Daily Worker, official organ of the Communist Party USA, published the names of dozens of show-business celebrities who had signed a petition supporting ''the recent Moscow t...
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