There was a time when Black creatives could simply be grateful for the opportunity to make something, but that wasn’t true ...

Sinners,” a wild, yet engaging take on supernatural horror directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B Jordan, came out ...

Ryan Coogler's latest film is an urgent rumination on race, past misdeeds, and unhealed wounds that still devour our body ...

Sinners begins with a prologue showing us how different cultures regarded their powerful storytellers, including the African ...

Director Ryan Coogler reteams with Michael B. Jordan and a stellar supporting cast for a spiritual, fantastical, and bloody story set in 1930s Mississippi. It’s a terrific melding of serious-minded ...

Composer Ludwig Göransson made 'the devil's music' with the 1932 Dobro Cyclops, which was used in for the surreal musical ...

Ryan Coogler’s vampire movie mines vampirism’s symbolic potential to tell a tale of exploitation and Black music in ...

Ryan Coogler sheds a decade of franchise skin to deliver a sweltering dream of the American South, summoning the ghosts of Black music and memory into a single, blood-soaked bite ...

Listen to an imagined set list for a supernatural juke joint featuring Albert King, Outkast, Cécile McLorin Salvant and more.

And even then, you’re left with the feeling of not having gotten the whole story, as if it’s continuing to spin out somewhere ...

That old “crossroads” mythology about Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil is replaced by references to West African griots and hostile ... would finance a movie that promotes its ...