Filmmaker RaMell Ross may be a practitioner and admirer of visual art, but in cinema, he strives for the effect of poetry.

In Hollywood, everyone is obsessed with what's new and shiny. It can be hard reinventing yourself over and over again just to convince people you still matter.

The “Negro Motorist Green Book,” a guide for African Americans first published in 1936, was a valued resource at a time when travel held the promise of adventure but was also perilous. It is now the ...