Exclusive: The controversial death Eazy-e, frontman of groundbreaking rap group Nwa, is to be explored in a new docuseries.
WEtv has ordered The Mysterious Death of Eazy-e and the four-part limited series will investigate the gangsta rap icon’s 1995. It comes from Critical Content.
Eazy-e, otherwise known as Eric Lynn Wright, died on March 26, 1995, a month after being admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA. He was diagnosed with HIV/AIDs. But there are conspiracies about the nature of his death.
There have long been rumblings about how he contracted the deadly disease. Death Row Records founder Suge Knight once discussed, on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, how killing someone with a contaminated blood injection, “an Eazy-e thing”, was the new way to kill people rather than shooting them.
There were also suggestions that Eazy-e, who also ran Ruthless Records and signed artists such as Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, had a hit out on him by white supremacists,...
WEtv has ordered The Mysterious Death of Eazy-e and the four-part limited series will investigate the gangsta rap icon’s 1995. It comes from Critical Content.
Eazy-e, otherwise known as Eric Lynn Wright, died on March 26, 1995, a month after being admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA. He was diagnosed with HIV/AIDs. But there are conspiracies about the nature of his death.
There have long been rumblings about how he contracted the deadly disease. Death Row Records founder Suge Knight once discussed, on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, how killing someone with a contaminated blood injection, “an Eazy-e thing”, was the new way to kill people rather than shooting them.
There were also suggestions that Eazy-e, who also ran Ruthless Records and signed artists such as Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, had a hit out on him by white supremacists,...
- 7/15/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
TCM and African-American Film Critics Association has partnered for a monthlong program, The Black Experience on Film.
Thirteen different members of Aafca will host programming that showcases portrayals of African-Americans throughout cinematic history, including 32 seminal films. The series begins Sept. 4 and continues every Tuesday and Thursday in primetime.
Programming includes specials like “Hollywood Confronts Racism” that will include a discussion with film critic Shawn Edwards and HipHollywood.com’s Jasmine Simpkins as they examine films such as 1961’s A Raisin in the Sun and 1984’s A Soldier's Story.
“It is both an honor and ...
Thirteen different members of Aafca will host programming that showcases portrayals of African-Americans throughout cinematic history, including 32 seminal films. The series begins Sept. 4 and continues every Tuesday and Thursday in primetime.
Programming includes specials like “Hollywood Confronts Racism” that will include a discussion with film critic Shawn Edwards and HipHollywood.com’s Jasmine Simpkins as they examine films such as 1961’s A Raisin in the Sun and 1984’s A Soldier's Story.
“It is both an honor and ...
- 8/24/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
TCM and African-American Film Critics Association has partnered for a monthlong program, The Black Experience on Film.
Thirteen different members of Aafca will host programming that showcases portrayals of African-Americans throughout cinematic history, including 32 seminal films. The series begins Sept. 4 and continues every Tuesday and Thursday in primetime.
Programming includes specials like “Hollywood Confronts Racism” that will include a discussion with film critic Shawn Edwards and HipHollywood.com’s Jasmine Simpkins as they examine films such as 1961’s A Raisin in the Sun and 1984’s A Soldier's Story.
“It is both an honor and ...
Thirteen different members of Aafca will host programming that showcases portrayals of African-Americans throughout cinematic history, including 32 seminal films. The series begins Sept. 4 and continues every Tuesday and Thursday in primetime.
Programming includes specials like “Hollywood Confronts Racism” that will include a discussion with film critic Shawn Edwards and HipHollywood.com’s Jasmine Simpkins as they examine films such as 1961’s A Raisin in the Sun and 1984’s A Soldier's Story.
“It is both an honor and ...
- 8/24/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Turner Classic Movies and the African American Film Critics Association have partnered on The Black Experience on Film, a monthlong programming initiative showcasing portrayals of African-Americans throughout cinematic history.
Hosted by 13 different members of the Aafca from print, online and broadcast outlets, programming begins September 4 and continues every Tuesday and Thursday in primetime.
The Black Experience on Film provides a wide-ranging retrospective from the 1920s through the 1990s including:
Exploring Black Identity airing Sept. 4 – Aafca president Gil Robertson and cultural critic Ronda Racha Penrice explore films ranging from Oscar Micheaux’s look at racial violence in Within Our Gates (1920) to Julie Dash’s 1991 story following three generations of Gullah women in Daughters Of The Dust; Hollywood Confronts Racism airing Sept. 6 – Aafca co-founder and film critic Shawn Edwards and HipHollywood.com’s Jasmine Simpkins examine A Raisin in the Sun (1961), about a black Chicago family searching for a better life, and...
Hosted by 13 different members of the Aafca from print, online and broadcast outlets, programming begins September 4 and continues every Tuesday and Thursday in primetime.
The Black Experience on Film provides a wide-ranging retrospective from the 1920s through the 1990s including:
Exploring Black Identity airing Sept. 4 – Aafca president Gil Robertson and cultural critic Ronda Racha Penrice explore films ranging from Oscar Micheaux’s look at racial violence in Within Our Gates (1920) to Julie Dash’s 1991 story following three generations of Gullah women in Daughters Of The Dust; Hollywood Confronts Racism airing Sept. 6 – Aafca co-founder and film critic Shawn Edwards and HipHollywood.com’s Jasmine Simpkins examine A Raisin in the Sun (1961), about a black Chicago family searching for a better life, and...
- 8/23/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
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