Resilience and a fighting spirit flow in the veins of someone like Ilyasah Shabazz or her family. Her grandparents were dedicated to the Marcus Garvey cause and targeted by the Black Legion for doing so. And her human-rights-activist parents, well, their names are Dr. Betty Shabazz and Malcolm X.
All In: The Fight for Democracy explores America’s history with voter suppression. In the Amazon Studios roll-out, director-producers Lisa Cortés and Liz Garbus inquire who is “we” in “We the People?” In an exclusive video interview with The Knockturnal, the two reveal America’s response prior to the film’s Sept. 18 release.
School is back in session! The infamous and student-faculty of Whitlock High School return to your screens. NBCUniversal’s Peacock picked up comedy series A.P. Bio and premieres a new season on Sept. 3, 2020. The cast joined The Knockturnal to teach us a thing or two.
Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA takes his directorial talent to New Orleans as new film Cut Throat City tackles life post-Hurricane Katrina.
Judas and the Black Messiah honors the life and legacy of Chairman Fred Hampton of the Illinois Black Panther Party.
In a world where everything can change in an instant, athletes become heroes of their crafts with down-to-the-wire plays. But what truly christens them as great doesn’t appear on a scoreboard or podium, according to Apple TV+’s latest documentary series, Greatness Code.
You can’t hear the “Kurtis Blow” without thinking about his iconic song, “The Breaks,” or how it ignited B-Boys like Crazy Legs who took the floors popping up around the urban disco scenes. Hip-hop pioneers Kurtis Blow and Crazy Legs took The Knockturnal on a trip down memory lane where music is alive and well in the heart of New York City.
Brooklynn Prince (The Florida Project) and Jim Sturgess (21, One Day) co-star as a father-daughter duo with an investigative eye.
We don’t find our calling—our calling finds us. And at the tender age of four, Aziza Scott was first visited by hers, a perpetual love of acting and theatre. It was this love that landed her a breakout role in Apple TV+’s Home Before Dark, the actress discussed with The Knockturnal.
Def Jam Recordings boosted its roster with Nasty C, an acclaimed artist hailing from Durban, South Africa. We hit the 23-year-old, who described how it all went down.