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'Judas and the Black Messiah' Leads 12th Annual AAFCA Awards With Four Wins, Including Best Film


Judas and the Black Messiah Leads 12th Annual AAFCA Awards With Four Wins, Including Best Film
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“Judas and the Black Messiah” has been named best film by the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA), leading the list of winners at the 12th AAFCA awards with four awards, including accolades for stars Daniel Kaluuya and Dominique Fishback. Director Shaka King will also be honored with the breakout director prize.
“Serving alongside an all-Black producing team, “Judas and the Black Messiah” director Shaka King created a project that permanently enshrines pivotal Black Panther leader Fred Hampton as an American hero,” AAFCA President/Co-Founder Gil Robertson said in a statement announcing the winners. “Released against the backdrop of the present-day Black Lives Matter movement, the film’s message of commitment and sacrifice to social justice is empowering.” ....

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24 Hours With Andra Day: Afrobeat and the Nixon Tapes


24 Hours With Andra Day: Afrobeat and the Nixon Tapes
At home in Los Angeles, the star of “United States vs. Billie Holiday” finds inspiration in African music and the autobiography of Assata Shakur.
Andra Day on hearing Billie Holiday’s voice for the first time: “It changed my idea of what a great singer was.”Credit.Phylicia J. L. Munn for The New York Times
March 2, 2021
The singer-songwriter Andra Day was 11 when she first heard Billie Holiday’s voice. “I heard ‘Sugar’ and I heard ‘Strange Fruit.’ It changed my idea of what a great singer was,” she said. When she began performing, she chose a stage name her given name is Cassandra Monique Batie that paid homage to Holiday’s sobriquet, the Lady Day. And a few years ago, when she learned Lee Daniels would soon direct a Holiday biopic, Day, who had never acted professionally before, knew that she had to audition. ....

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Andra Day on portraying Billie Holiday's signature voice and power


Updated on Mar 1, 2021 5:46 PM EDT Published on
Mar 1, 2021 5:33 PM EDT
Late into Lee Daniels’ new Billie Holiday biopic, Andra Day, as the late singer, steps onto a stage, alone. In the hushed venue, Day walks up to a mic, donning the singer’s trademark gardenias in her hair.
The camera lingers on Day’s face as she sings the opening lines to “Strange Fruit,” a signature Holiday song that protests lynchings of Black people. The accompanying music doesn’t start until after Day sings, in a Holiday-like rasp, of “Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze.” The movie cuts away from Day’s performance only one time, to show an audience that’s either enthralled or horrified or both. ....

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