has its heart in the right place, but considering its origins (Langston Hughes’ gospel play from 1961) and terrific cast, the film doesn’t rise to the heights we might have hoped for. Writer-director ...

For a while there, it looked like director Kasi Lemmons was going to score Samuel L Jackson for one of the main roles in her latest, Black Nativity. But he never made a deal and with the casting on ...

Acting on a tip, deputies with the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday arrested five teenagers on charges that they stole and destroyed a 12-piece Nativity scene from a Methodist church in ...

Langston Hughes conceived of Black Nativity in the 1960s as a euphoric stage musical version of the birth of Jesus with a black cast. The show is still regularly performed as written, but ...